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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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 have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.
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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.
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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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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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We must protect the traditions of tolerance that we have established in this country,
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I want to encourage that culture rather than the other way round.
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They have sent names, we are considering them and they are currently on our warnings index which means there will be a ministerial decision on any individual case of a case coming into those countries,
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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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All our foreign posts throughout the world are looking at their particular country... and, of course, we have got the names that are widely in the public domain at the moment.
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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 told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.