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Clare Short

"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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"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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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"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 brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
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"One must strike the right balance between speed and quality."
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"Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment."
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"But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it."
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"I have set out to change the language of the international system."
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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 was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?"
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"The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war."
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"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."
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"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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"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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