Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarkeis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006...
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Now, at the end, my judgement turned out to be incorrect and we lost the vote.
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I think there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever in any of those areas that his authority is in anyway diminished.
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We must protect the traditions of tolerance that we have established in this country,
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I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.
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We worked all our lives basically for nothing.
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We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.
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I expect the leadership election to be something like 2008.
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If we could get one that could get there faster than it, then we would be able to stop the fire from spreading quickly before it gets a head start on us.
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I have concluded that the balance now is not right and that it needs to be closely examined in the heightened threat that we now face,
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We have to defend our values of respect of tolerance of freedom and democracy against any who wish to destroy or replace them with some other doctrine, particularly if they seek to use violence to promote their ambition.
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I wish we didn't have the problem. I wish we didn't have suicide bombers at all. I wish I could go like that and they're gone,
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I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
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The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.