Daniel Hannan Quotes

• You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

  Daniel Hannan

  Economic Recession, Debt, Politics

  "Outcry Against U.S. Budget Heard Around Globe". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2009.

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

  Daniel Hannan

  Moral, Rectitude, Dangerous

  FOX "Freedom Watch" with Judge Andrew Napolitano, April 29, 2009.

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• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

  Daniel Hannan

  Book, Anecdotes, Cracks

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• If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

  Daniel Hannan

  Running, Thinking, Complaining

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• Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

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  Trade Zone, People, Tunes

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• The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

  Daniel Hannan

  Best Practices, Law, Citizens

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• The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, United States, Next

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• You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

  Daniel Hannan

  Order, Forever, Economy

  "Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, America, Democracy

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• New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

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  Father, Grateful, Presidential

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• I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

  Daniel Hannan

  Party, Support, Leader

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• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Hannan

  Islands, Museums, Gold

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