Jack Straw Quotes
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Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.
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This is a crucial meeting for the future of the European Union.
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The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
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The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.
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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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Iran has the opportunity now to address the clear concerns of the IAEA, and the lack of confidence in Iran's nuclear intentions.
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If we go the right way we reach the sunny uplands. If we go the wrong way, it could be catastrophic for the European Union.
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We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.
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Mr. Wiesenthal has been untiring in his service to the Jewish communities in the U.K. and elsewhere by helping to right at least some of the awful wrongs of the Holocaust, ... If there is one name which symbolizes this vital coming to terms with the past, it is Simon Wiesenthal's.
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If people are caught up for 36 hours in a soulless building in Brussels, tempers are going to fray... It is in many ways a sad day for Europe. But out of this sad day there is an opportunity to reconnect.
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We look to the Iranian government to sit down with us, hear what we have to say and take action where appropriate.
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I am in no doubt at all that our policy of engagements with the government of Iran ... is the best approach,
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And I think we need therefore to judge the contents of what is in any event an interim report, against the reasons why we took military action back in March.
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Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent.
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The truth is, as (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice has made clear, military action in respect of the Iranian dossier is not on anybody's agenda. I believe it is inconceivable.
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In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
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waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.
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Those residents who are there should consider leaving unless their presence there is essential, ... British citizens who remain should exercise extreme caution, especially in public places.
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I cannot say whether in the middle of December we will or will not reach a deal, but it certainly will not be for want of trying.
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As soon as I leave this briefing ... I am going to find the people I think are responsible and encourage them to deal with it and to offer them some career advice.