"The Liberals have been pressing for the brief……" — Clare Short
"The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war."
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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 Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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