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Jonathan Aitken
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“If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.”

- Jonathan Aitken

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“If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.”

- Jonathan Aitken

Source/Notes: Quoted in James Prior, A Balance of Power (1986), p.107
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“If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.”

- Jonathan Aitken

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“As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.”

- Jonathan Aitken

Source/Notes: On how he might cope with prison. Quoted in Daily Express, 19 January 1999
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“It's a fairly unique position; to hace been in charge of prison funding and then to have been an inmate. I wish I'd been more generous.”

- Jonathan Aitken

Source/Notes: Quoted in The Times, 3 June 2000
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