Quotes by Ferdinand Mount

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. (Ferdinand Mount)

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. (Ferdinand Mount)

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. (Ferdinand Mount)

At a rough estimate, I should guess I started taking an interest in the British Constitution at the age of forty-two and a half. (Ferdinand Mount)

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. (Ferdinand Mount)

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. (Ferdinand Mount)

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. (Ferdinand Mount)

I think its a pity that in many peoples minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. (Ferdinand Mount)

I think we have too often sacrificed clear and honest argument in the interests of smoothness of administration. (Ferdinand Mount)

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. (Ferdinand Mount)