Best quotes by Robert Harris on Politics

Checkout quotes by Robert Harris on Politics

• ‟ I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

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• ‟ I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

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• ‟ Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

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• ‟ I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

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• ‟ Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

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• ‟ I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.

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• ‟ Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

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• ‟ You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

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