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" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

Nuclear Weapons

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" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "

" Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "

" Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. "

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

" Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. "

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "

" Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. "

" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "

" Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

" In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. "

" My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. "

" Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. "

" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "

" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "

" In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. "

" The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. "

" My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. "

" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "

" In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

" In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. "

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "