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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."

"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."

"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."

"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."

"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."

"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."

"Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something."

"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."

"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."

"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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