Ability Quote by Daniel Hannan

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived…

— Daniel Hannan

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code…

— Daniel Hannan

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake,…

— Daniel Hannan

“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.”

— Daniel Hannan

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

— Daniel Hannan

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as…

— Daniel Hannan

“As well as being tailored to the circumstances of the recipient, charity allows the donor to make a moral choice. There is virtue in…

— Daniel Hannan

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

— Daniel Hannan

“The American,” he wrote, “is the Englishman left to himself.”

— Daniel Hannan

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.

— Daniel Hannan

Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.

— Daniel Hannan

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…

— Daniel Hannan