Malcolm Rifkind Quotations

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.

I believe that people are nervous and worried and anxious, ... I wouldn't say confidence has disappeared. The economy is still very buoyant. But people are worried.

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.

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.

is an asset for the world, not just for its own people or for a particular regime.

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.

a serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

It's not our gold, we don't own it and therefore we don't have the ability to simply by ourselves decide what should happen to it.

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,

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.

The gold in the Bank of England is gold held on behalf of the Tripartite Commission -- that is the United States, Britain and France,