- Alan Clark: Crazy spastic headline in today's Sunday Express. Really, I am Dutch, though slightly put out. So what if we did do a bit of bending and stretching.
- Jane Clark: You are utterly odious.
- Alan Clark: I think this is going to be a very bad year.
- Jane Clark: I wish you wouldn't keep on saying things like that, I really dislike it.
- Alan Clark: If I'm being really honest with myself, I dreaded the general election and resigned my seat because I thought we were going to lose.
- Alan Clark: The whole year stretches before me in which there is nothing but nothing to tie the structure to.
- Alan Clark: There was a time I could have held both of these women, now it's simply a form of torture.
- Alan Clark: There are no true friends in politics, we're all sharks circling and waiting for traces of blood in the water.
- Alan Clark: I think what saddens me most is the so near, so far experience of MOD. My defence review has become an irrelevance, despite its wisdom.
- Alan Clark: Now we live in a squalid scrabble. It's nonsense to say we're better off. We're catastrophically poorer.
- Alan Clark: If I am sacked, it is for saying what I believe and what is manifestly true. How much consolation is that? Some I suppose.