Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Clark

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English politician Alan Clark.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.

English - Politician | April 13, 1928 - September 5, 1999

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There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Alan Clark

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Clark