Michael Dobbs

“This will not be easy,’ he said. ‘Neither is failure.”

— Michael Dobbs

“O’Neill jumped out into the road, jammed a note into the driver’s hand, and dodged another motorcyclist as he made his way…

— Michael Dobbs

“His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.”

— Michael Dobbs

“Bismarck defined political intuition as the ability to hear, before anybody else, “the distant hoofbeats of history.”

— Michael Dobbs

“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is…

— Michael Dobbs

“The closest contact they had with the enemy was a playful sign that boasted: “Worldwide delivery in 30 minutes or less—or your…

— Michael Dobbs

“I’m an Englishman, after all,”

— Michael Dobbs

“You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.”

— Michael Dobbs

“And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to…

— Michael Dobbs

“JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the…

— Michael Dobbs

“Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.”

— Michael Dobbs

“It’s not respect but fear that motivates a man; that’s how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of…

— Michael Dobbs

“Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. “Poly” means “many.” And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.”

— Michael Dobbs

“Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's…

— Michael Dobbs

“Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient,”

— Michael Dobbs

“Why waste a life in search of an epitaph? ‘Fondly Remembered’. Who other than a halfwit has that chiselled above his head?”

— Michael Dobbs

“Khrushchev had been ready to settle for a”

— Michael Dobbs