Clare Short famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
-- Clare Short

#Disappointment #Men #Constant
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
-- Clare Short

#Thinking #Democracy #Should
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
-- Clare Short

#Country #Needs #Birth Control
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
-- Clare Short

#War #Authority #Said
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
-- Clare Short

#Technology #People #Poverty
One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
-- Clare Short

#Balance #Quality #Speed
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
-- Clare Short

#Country #Depressing #Politics
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.
-- Clare Short

#Believe #People #Expansion
Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
-- Clare Short

#Israel #States #Apartheid
[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
-- Clare Short

#Israel #Community #Global Warming
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
-- Clare Short

#Thinking #Iraq #Suffering
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.
-- Clare Short

#Morning #People #Rising
Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
-- Clare Short

#Needs #Action #Should
We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.
-- Clare Short

#Gun #America #Bidding
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.
-- Clare Short

#Remember #Resolution #Said
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
-- Clare Short

#Loss #Suffering #Population
But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
-- Clare Short

#Country #Lying #Iraq
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?
-- Clare Short

#War #Preparation #Suffering
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
-- Clare Short

#Break Up #Mean #Agreement
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
-- Clare Short

#Government #Needs #Chance
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
-- Clare Short

#Anger #Mean #Justice
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.
-- Clare Short

#Roots #Rights #Effort
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.
-- Clare Short

#Attitude #Gay #Ideas

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