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I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.
— Robert Harris
Tags: power, you, change, alone

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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
— Robert Harris
Tags: house, people, you, me
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
— Robert Harris
Tags: father, school, mother, time
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
— Robert Harris
Tags: know, war, you, politics
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
— Robert Harris
Tags: forgotten, dust, holocaust, wind
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
— Robert Harris
Tags: like, more, politics, life
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