Clare Short Quotes

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• We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships…
• And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had…
• And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the…
• But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we…
• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack…
• I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our…
• We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
• That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within…
• To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy…
• Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in…
• I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
• I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
• It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
• The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
• For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification…
• One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
• The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
• Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
• So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have…

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