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

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" 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. "

" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "

" Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. "

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" Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. "

" I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. "

" I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. "

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" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "

" Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. "

" Elected presidents are for countries. "

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

" Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. "

" A generation of children has been betrayed. "

" People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. "

" I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. "

" We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. "

" We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. "

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" I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. "

" Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. "

" 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. "

" I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. "

" In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. "

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" I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. "

" It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. "