Jack Straw
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Strawis an English politician who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 August 1946
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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It's a self-evident truth that if we're able to get a broad consensus with Russia and China, it strengthens the international community's hand with the Iranians on this dossier,
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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It undermines the key relationship between civil servants and ministers, ... It has led to very great concern, I may say, among the whole of the diplomatic service.
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It took a good deal of work behind the scenes to achieve this result and I'm glad we've got there.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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It will spell out that we are approaching the end of the final opportunity that Saddam Hussein was given to completely disarm in substance as well as process.
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They are not, and almost everybody accepts this, entitled to engage in seeking to disrupt the way our democracy operates by violence or threats of violence.
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil,
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that have reportedly left thousands of the most vulnerable homeless and destitute and called on the government to abide by the rule of law and respect for human rights.
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that isolation and defiance of the international community does not work, however fanciful individual nations may think that it can work.
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That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq,
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targeting was very careful and that action was proportionate.
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It needs to be resolved by all facilities available to the international community, that is what we have been working on and continue to work on,