Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount
SirFerdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times as well as a political commentator...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1939
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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.
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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.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.