What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
Michael HowardThe important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
Michael HowardI believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Michael HowardPeople often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.
Michael Howard