Jonathan Aitken Quotes

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom , and a former Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He is currently president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Aitken was also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

✵ 30. August 1942
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“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.”

On how he might cope with prison, as quoted in Daily Express (19 January 1999).

“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.”

Criticising press reports that he had violated the ministerial code of conduct; he later started a libel trial, which ended in his conviction for perjury.
Statement of (10 April 1995); as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd ed., (2007), p. 6.

“If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.”

As quoted in A Balance of Power (1986) by James Prior, p. 107.

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