Margot Asquith Quotes
He [David Lloyd George] couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
Lloyd George had just ousted her husband, Herbert Asquith, from the Prime Ministership.
Margot Asquith, 1864-1945, British Author & Socialite, Autobiography, 1922
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There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
A master of political dirty tricks, Tuck was then working for the Republicans against the election of William Clinton. The web site provided “dirt” and negative material about Clinton, much of which was exaggerated or untrue.
Asked to comment on the "steadiness" of then incoming president, George W. Bush:
The English were at War with Napoleon and Denmark was neutral. British leaders feared that Denmark might either ally themselves with Napoleon or provide him with ships from their well equipped fleet. The English decided on a preemptive attack on Denmark and Paget and other Captains were ordered to Denmark. When they arrived they were ordered to bombard Copenhagen and force the Danes to surrender. When this happened, the British seized the Danish ships and simply took them as war prizes. The issues of the morality and wisdom of preemptive attacks, as with the Americans in the Iraq war, was thoroughly debated but the government view prevailed to the shame of most Englishmen.
McNickle claimed to have quoted her in an article and she did not say it and she was angry that he had put words in her mouth. Most political spouses would just suffer in silence, and if they did respond would do so in very polite and in the case of women “ladylike: terms. Ms. Kerry however was not only a very successful business woman but also was one of the richest women in America who had been in the tussles of male battles before
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928.
