Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter quotes

“Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.”
-- Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter

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“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”

“Political development should start at the grassroots.”

“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”

“Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.”

“Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].”

“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”

“Israel does not care about the international public opinion.”