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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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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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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Following months of diplomatic work we now have good reason to believe that we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees so that they will not be subject to torture or ill-treatment, ... powers to deport individuals and detain them pending deportation.
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There was a determination from all colleagues around the table ... to reach agreement,
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Proscription is an important power, and not one to be used lightly, ... The list of proscribed organizations is kept under constant review and after careful consideration of all the relevant factors I am satisfied that these groups should now be added to it.
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Our equipment we thought was fine. But when you get out there and start fighting it for 20 or 30 hours straight, equipment starts failing. And so we need a lot of repair on some of these older trucks.
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We must protect the traditions of tolerance that we have established in this country,
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I expect the leadership election to be something like 2008.
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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 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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It seems to me we have to give the same rights to those humans who want to travel without being blown up on an underground train,
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I want to encourage that culture rather than the other way round.
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I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.
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The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is... more merciful than a prolonged struggle.