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Famous Daniel Hannan Quotes

“I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.”

Daniel Hannan

"The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-hannan-the-republic-will-survive-trump-but-will-the-republicans (3 September 2018), The Washington Examiner 2010s

“We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Russian aggression (2018)

“Georgia, like Ukraine and Moldova, is a sovereign state. If we accept, in practice, that Russia can alter borders by force, we signal to Moscow that it can violate international norms with impunity. We can hardly then complain if the Kremlin meddles in American elections, or orders murders on British soil.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Russian aggression (2018)

“You cannot spend your way out of a recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we are well placed to weather the storm, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it's nonsense. Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so. The European Commission has said so. The markets have said so, which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon, the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government”

Daniel Hannan

Speech to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament, 24 March 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs 2000s

“Here is Russia, blatantly threatening a neighboring state with war if it seeks to pursue an independent foreign policy, yet we are so habituated to Russian flouting of international law that we barely notice any more.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Russian aggression (2018)

“Surely the liberal ideal one is where, instead of obsessing about the ethnic backgrounds of actors, we treat their skin-colour as just one more attribute, like hair-colour or the ability to speak the appropriate accent for the production.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Identity politics (2018)

Daniel Hannan Quotes about ideas and thoughts

“That idea that car manufacturers might disinvest after we leave the EU? It's a - what's the word?”

Daniel Hannan

oh yes. Lie. Tweet by verified account https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/644428141302255616 (17 September 2015) 2010s

“The idea that Nazism is a more extreme form of conservatism has insinuated its way into popular culture.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)

“What I want to do, by holding up the mirror, is to take on the equally false idea that there is an ideological continuum between free-marketers and fascists.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)

Daniel Hannan Quotes

“The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.”

Daniel Hannan

Spoken by Daniel Hannan on Judge Andrew Napolitano's online streaming FOX News program, Freedom Watch (29 April 2009)
2000s

“Race is said to be non-existent, yet our cultural elites rarely seem to think of anything else.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Identity politics (2018)

“Back in 2014, when no one else was planning how to win the referendum, @DouglasCarswell talked tactics at the @Tate. He said: "We can win in one of two circumstances: a visible failure of the renegotiation, or one of the two main party leaders being neutral."”

Daniel Hannan

In the event, we got both. Thanks @jeremycorbyn. Series of tweets following Jeremy Corbyn's sacking of shadow ministers who defied a Labour whip not to support an amendment calling for the UK to stay in the single market after Brexit https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/880721871720808448 (30 June 2017) 2010s

“If people are determined to be outraged, they will be outraged.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Identity politics (2018)

“Britain, as a relatively large economy which exports more to non-EU than to EU markets, would be better off trading freely with the single market than belonging to it.”

Daniel Hannan

http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/09/daniel-hannan-repeat-after-me-single-market-membership-and-single-market-access-are-not-the-same-thing.html 2010s

“What is happening to this country, for the love of God?”

Daniel Hannan

Twitter post https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1039812786539450368 (12 September 2018) 2010s

“The EU's single market is a single regulatory regime. Membership of it doesn’t mean that you can sell your products into it: pretty much the whole world can do that. Membership means, rather, that you accept a common set of technical standards, and that you submit yourself to the ultimate jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.”

Daniel Hannan

https://capx.co/remain-campaign-is-misleading-voters-on-the-single-market/

“In an atmosphere when anyone can close down the conversation by saying “I feel uncomfortable”, rational discussion becomes impossible. The empirical method, the basis of Enlightenment civilization, no longer applies.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Identity politics (2018)

“We have lived through this mistake for 60 years now.”

Daniel Hannan

Speaking about the NHS, during an interview with Fox News https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/apr/05/cameron-hannan-nhs-prescott (2 April 2009) 2000s

“Next time you hear Leftists use the word fascist as a general insult, gently point out the difference between what they like to imagine the NSDAP stood for and what it actually proclaimed.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)

“Eugenics, of course, topples easily into racism. Engels himself wrote of the "racial trash".”

Daniel Hannan

the groups who would necessarily be supplanted as scientific socialism came into its own. Season this outlook with a sprinkling of anti-capitalism and you often got Leftist anti-Semitism.
2010s, Nazism (2014)

“History is reinterpreted, and it is taken as axiomatic that fascism must have been Right-wing, the logic seemingly being that Left-wing means compassionate and Right-wing means nasty and fascists were nasty.”

Daniel Hannan

So total is the Left's cultural ascendancy that no one likes to mention the socialist roots of fascism (February 16, 2013), The Telegraph
2010s

“Marx's error, Hitler believed, had been to foster class war instead of national unity - to set workers against industrialists instead of conscripting both groups into a corporatist order.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)

“Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)

“On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars.”

Daniel Hannan

2010s, Nazism (2014)