52 Quotes by Clare Short

I mean the UK in this time was also getting - spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on.

I just couldn't believe that he would do it, that anyone could be so deceitful over a matter of war, fighting for human life and taking it.

I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

Most of us women like men, you know; it’s just that we find them a constant disappointment.

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 Middle East is more angry than ever. I’m afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous – so it won’t go away will it?

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they’d veto any second resolution – which wasn’t true, we now know.