52 Quotes by Clare Short

I think everyone agrees we would have done better with a different leader,

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.