Ambition Quote by Christopher Hibbert

“IN THE TORRID London summer of 1886, William Gladstone was up against Benjamin Disraeli for the post of prime minister of the United Kingdom.…

— Olivia Fox Cabane

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better…

— Michael Foot

“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he…

— Frank Herbert

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak…

— Harold Pinter

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has…

— Arthur Helps

“Oval Office. Truth be told, Stuart had been secretly pleased to see Wiley show a little spine and stand up to him on Cassi’s…

— Tim Tigner

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I had taken office during a raging intifada, with Yasser Arafat running the Palestinian Authority, Israeli leaders committed to a Greater Israel policy, and…

— George W. Bush

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing…

— Anthony Holden

“I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a suave and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his…

— John Dickerson

“So also to Sir Robert Peel was Catholic Emancipation horrible, so was Reform of Parliament, so was the Corn Law Repeal. They were horrible…

— Anthony Trollope