Quotes About Enoch Powell

One of Enoch Powell's wiser remarks was that politicians complaining about the press were like sailors complaining about the sea. It is not the job of newspapers to win elections; it is the job of political parties.

We must be mad, literally mad as a nation… It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre… As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood. Enoch Powell, 1968

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.