Malcolm Rifkind Quotations

Who even seven days ago would have said that David Davis's campaign would be in such difficulties and David Cameron's would be so relatively healthy? That can change again equally quickly,

You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries more weight than any other single country.

I am really frustrated at not being able to make a contribution towards the resolution of issues which I have had some experience of and feel I could contribute to.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

Of course there is a risk. But ... neither Gordon Brown nor Tony Blair had even been a junior minister before they took up their present responsibilities. So sometimes these risks are justified.

It is the single biggest foreign policy disaster since Suez,

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces,

Ken Clarke has the popular appeal, he has the experience, he's an obvious person who can handle Gordon Brown who will be Prime Minister by the time of the next election.