Experience Quote by David Starkey

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his…

— Kevin Allen

Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no…

— Martin Jacques

“There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he…

— Ken Follett

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the…

— Martin Jacques

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world…

— Bianca Jagger

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point…

— Stockwell Day

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and…

— Larry King

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if…

— Anthony McCarten

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

— Edward Heath

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

— Steve Earle