Of course we need action, but it should be Just action. Clare Short More Quotes by Clare Short More Quotes From Clare Short We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. Clare Short governmentchanceneeds I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it. Clare Short break-upagreementmean I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. Clare Short iraqsufferingthinking We expect board members to lead by example. Clare Short business So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. Clare Short legalmy-ownwarway Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. Clare Short worsestandardsviolenceworld The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. Clare Short wordssituationpeopleworld I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. Clare Short ladyintelligencepeopleway I have set out to change the language of the international system. Clare Short systemoutlanguagechange But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. Clare Short goingvotepressurewar
