Clare Short Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.”

“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.”

“I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.”

“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 the morning.”

“We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.”

“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 International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.”

“I have set out to change the language of the international system.”

“I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.”

“The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.”

“The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.”