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 true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
Michael HowardI am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.
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