Alan Clark:
There's no point in dodging it, when you're out, you're out.

Alan Clark:
Sex actually is all women think about when they don't know an answer.

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.

Alan Clark:
I didn't realise until too late the prestige I commanded.

Alan Clark:
I should never have left the House of Commons.

Alan Clark:
My enemies are rampant.

Alan Clark:
Actually they're just a lot of old has-beens, all leaving public life.

Alan Clark:
He was pathetically glad to hear praise.

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:
It is simply time to go.

Alan Clark:
Gosh I'm glad to be out of 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:
I am doomed now to the wilderness. Towards tidings of men and events.

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 really am most terribly sorry Tom.

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.