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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 accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors

Robin Cook's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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…

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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.

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

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