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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

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People in the forefront of environmental causes are destroying experimental crops. That's not logical. That's Luddite.

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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

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If President Clinton decides to accelerate the run-down in US forces in Europe—and by implication the priority Washington attaches to Nato—that wedge will be removed. With it will go one of the principal props which have allowed Britain to punch above its weight in the world.

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Born: March 8, 1930 (age 95)
Bio: Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
Known for:
  1. Disraeli (2013)
  2. Robert Peel (2007)
  3. Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast (2015)
  4. The Palace of Enchantments (1985)

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