445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

If politicians don't care about the electorate and lie to them, they can't expect the electorate to care back and vote them in. An election must be more than a search for honesty in a snake pit.

The great wisdom of ageing is to be as forthcoming as a Freemason when people ask how old you are.

Be suspicious of the litigious.

People say they don’t believe in luck: luck is the reason the dinosaurs got wiped out and why human beings became the new dominant species on this planet.

Celebrities are like the perpetrators of crime in that they appear out of nowhere when you least expect it and are usually gone before you know what's happened.

In the West, we've gone from living in holier-than-thou societies to more-liberal-than-thou ones. Call it secular piety but both are just different forms of the same sanctimoniousness.

Europe is a functioning paradox - it gave the world most of its laws, societal structures, and culture but was also the cradle of two world wars and the Holocaust.

Britain and Germany thought they were winning World War II by trying to bomb the other into submission. In reality, they were destroying themselves as global powers, and (ironically, similar to one of the firestorms their city bombings caused), creating a vacuum on the world stage that the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to fill as superpowers in the post-war years.

War is a cauldron that softens bureaucracy and expedites the formation of formidable reputations.