Clare Short Quotes

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I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

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[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

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Hubris is, certainly, the disease of politics. The health and safety commission should send everyone a warning.

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It is ridiculous that British troops are here in Crossmaglen. The claim is that they're in Ireland keeping the peace between the two communities. But there is only one community in South Armagh, so what the heck are they doing here?

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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

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If you are a political party that seeks election, there is no point in being right if you can't win.

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In a critique of Tony Blair's political advisers:
I sometimes call them the people who live in the dark. Everything they do is in hiding…Everything we do is in the light. They live in the dark.

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I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.

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Lloyd George and Roosevelt had mistresses, no one dwelt on it. Now we have to discuss oral sex. It's not just dumbing down, it's a sort of crassness.

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