Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

- Robin Cook

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domesti…

- Robin Cook

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

- Robin Cook

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

- Robin Cook

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded b…

- Robin Cook

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not …

- Robin Cook

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propagand…

- Robin Cook

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

- Robin Cook

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

- Robin Cook