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" A generation of children has been betrayed. "

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" Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. "

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" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "

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" You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. "

" I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. "

" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "

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" I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. "

" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

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" Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria. "

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" You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. "

" You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. "

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" The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. "

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" It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. "

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" One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. "

" The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. "

" Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. "

" The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. "

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