39 Quotes by Robin Oakley

such a hot potato that it was dropped.

We are not going to see a full NATO operation,

The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense a mark of respect for Tony Blair, an attempt to show outside world -- because George Bush doesn't voyage outside the United States all that easily -- it's a sign that he takes him seriously and listens to his advice. It gives him some sort of political payback,

But one thing he didn't address, having raised in his speech the suggestion that politics in France had to change, he didn't have anything to suggest how the political system should change,

Both sides know that with stock markets everywhere in free fall it is hardly the time to spark an all-out trade war.

There is skepticism among unionists as the IRA is blamed for the huge Northern Bank robbery last year and the question they are asking is: Will that money be used as pensions for old IRA fighters or to buy new arms,

were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

(Blair) was saying that one way or another inaction was not a possibility -- there has to be action of one kind or another.

(Blair) looking to jumpstart the Middles East peace process.