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" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

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

Do The Right Thing

" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "

" 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. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "

" I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" 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. "

" Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. "

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

" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "

" And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. "

" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "

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" The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. "

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" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "