Daniel Hannan Quotes

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• I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
• The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe
• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into…
• New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.…
• Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we…
• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to…
• The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of…
• The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
• You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
• You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the…
• The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British…
• Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions,…
• The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or…
• The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to…
• The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition.…
• A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
• Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and…
• When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have…

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