74 Quotes by Geoff Hoon

We measured numbers of people and platforms in the Cold War because we were preparing for an essentially attritional campaign, holding back Soviet forces,

I actually think people out in the country are far more aware of the impact of the events of September 11 than some of the people who write in the newspaper are,

I think that one of the things that is often overlooked about the relationship between the prime minister and the chancellor is that these two men worked together every single day when we were in opposition and I can remember being in Gordon's office a lot when I was Treasury whip and they would be constantly on the phone to each other talking all the time,

The armored battle group that will deploy brings important qualities of extensive training, experience and hard-edge combat capability. It is not the case, as is often implied, that there are 130,000 U.S. troops that could take on this task, ... In fact, fewer than a third of U.S. forces in Iraq have the requisite combat capability, and of those even fewer have the armored capability that is needed.

We do need internationally to work together to isolate North Korea and to demonstrate that we will not tolerate the way in which they both develop and proliferate weapons of mass destruction,

We've made it clear that this is not the start of a major conflict, but certainly our forces are ready, they are prepared and they will take on the tasks that assigned to them,

We are disturbed that after the first evidence session (before the committee), which did not cover all the concerns released by the intelligence staff, the defense secretary decided against giving instructions for a letter to be written to us outlining the concerns.

The political connection between India and the UK runs deep and stands stronger than it has ever been. I attend this event for the second consecutive year and reinforce my belief that we have a lot to learn from the world's largest democracy.

We have made clear all along that this bill is for discussion and debate,