Robin Cook
Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cookwas a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Livingston from 1983 until his death, and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 May 1940
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(The helicopter) was on the ship not because HMS Cornwall was cooperating in any kind of mercenary activity, but because the West African commander was cooperating with HMS Cornwall in its humanitarian effort,
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I welcome this statement, which looks like a positive development, ... We shall need to study exactly what the Libyans have said.
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It is politically and diplomatically possible to negotiate withdrawal
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It accentuates our grave concern about the increased risk of nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia, and of escalating tension in that region.
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Those teeth will be supplied by the NATO countries,
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to make sure that we do make it very difficult for the Yugoslav army to support the repression in Kosovo and that we increase the cost of Milosevic of doing that.
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
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Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?
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There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors
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The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.
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The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.
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We hold President Milosevic responsible for the safety of these three men,
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We said last time we would not be giving formal warnings to Saddam Hussein, ... I'm not now going to give him any warning of what we might do.
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Yes, but all the effort he has had to put into concealment makes it difficult for him to assemble them quickly for use.