The 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 HowardThere is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
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 HowardWe cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
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