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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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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The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is ... 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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It is time to start talking and to get down to real serious business on the proposals by the Contact Group,
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It makes me very angry and also at the same time very sad that anybody should carry out such a violent attack with no possible gain from it and only suffering to the individual and his family,
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Anyone on the streets knows we were not elected because Tony Blair was popular this time around,
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Hong Kong will be the main centerpiece of our relations with China for a long time to come,
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If he (Hussein) really is willing this time to cooperate, that could be done in the fairly near future,
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Tony made no attempt to pretend that what (then-chief U.N. weapons inspector) Hans Blix might report would make any difference to the countdown to invasion,
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We will now only stop the NATO campaign if Milosevic makes an offer of real substance that meets NATO's key demands: a cease-fire on the ground and a halt to ethnic cleansing,
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We expect this visit to provide a further boost to the excellent commercial relationships Britain and Argentina enjoy,
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We don't trust him. Of course we don't trust him. That's precisely why the critical element for us in any deal that can stick would be mechanisms to make sure he can't go back on it,
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We are very concerned ... We need to know she's safe, is well. What's happened to her is a scandal,
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I very much hope that it is the deal we are looking for, ... What he is saying is encouraging ... If he has got the kind of deal that appears to be emerging, he has moved Saddam a long way.
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The starting point for our discussions will be the offer we made in 1988 to help fund a program of land reform, ... But it has to be a program that is within the rule of law and helps the rural poor. And the occupations have to stop.