“I am not a fascist. Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a Nazi.”
William Donaldson (ed.), Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (London 2002), p. 152.
Letter to the Guardian.
Alan Clark: 10 citations0 J'aime
Alan Clark: Citations en anglais
January 30, 1991; page 395.
On the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
January 29, 1988; page 198.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
Interviewed by John Pilger in the documentary Death of a Nation, broadcast on ITV February 22, 1994. <br class="br">The interview was transcribed in New Statesman and Society, February 18, 1994 http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1994/02/21/0009.html.
“You cannot come here because you are not white.”
Quoted in his obituary in The Guardian, September 8, 1999 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3899666-103684,00.html. <br class="br">In 1971 Clark said this should be the message given to refugees expelled by Idi Amin from Uganda who held residence rights in the UK.
“The trouble with Michael [Heseltine] is that he had to buy his own furniture”
Attributed by Clark in his diaries to Michael Jopling. The full quote is "An arriviste, certainly, who can't shoot straight and in Jopling's damning phrase 'bought all his own furniture', but who at any rate seeks the cachet. All the nouves in the party think he is the real thing." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/07/bbc.politicsandthemedia <br class="br">Misattributed
May 15, 1983; page 5.
On the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
April 3, 1990; page 291.
On reform of the General Staff, while he was Minister of Defence Procurement.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
“The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.”
Spoken at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference, October 7, 1997. Reported in The Guardian, October 8, 1997 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,451799,00.html
