140 Quotes by John Reid

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

We will develop a simple code for processed food to indicate fat, sugar and salt content for shoppers,

There has not been a fundamental breakdown in trust, ... There has been an incident that will be investigated.

There has not been a fundamental breakdown in trust between the British government and the Iraqi government,

We have shown an interest in him but if you think it through, other clubs have more (trade) ammunition than we have.

When you have stability, it will be time to depart,

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

We will be there until conditions are met for a handover to the Iraqis, when they have sufficient forces. This will not be an event; it will be a process. It will not happen at the same time in every part of the country; it will happen over a period of time,

What happened yesterday was that two of our service men were arrested by Iraqi police and under the law as it stands they should have been handed back to the military authorities,