Errors Quote by Ferdinand Mount

“Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.”

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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the…

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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what…

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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men…

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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking…

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point,…

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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of…

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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama…

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