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"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"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 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 of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?"
"But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it."
"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."
"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 said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know."
"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."
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