"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear……" — Clare Short
"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal."
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25 Quotes by Clare Short
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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…
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And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position…
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And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone…
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that…
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war…
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty…
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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland…
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To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice,…
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Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
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People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor…
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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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