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Jonathan Aitken Quotes

born 1942 Ireland

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a former British Conservative politician. A Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1997, he was formerly a Cabinet minister and Privy Counsellor.

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I've had a racier past than most priests.

If you asked her [Margaret Thatcher] about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

James Prior A Balance of Power (1986)

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

It's a fairly unique position; to have been in charge of prison funding and then to have been an inmate. I wish I'd been more generous.

If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Aitken (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.