Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

- Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

- Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

- Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

- Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

- Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are d…

- Alan Clark