104 Quotes filtered by world politics
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
Margaret Thatcher 17/02/1987
House of Commons speech
Category: SDI/Star Wars
We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.
Margaret Thatcher 16/02/1981
Ladies & Gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my hair softly waved. The Iron Lady of the western world? Me? A cold warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of the values and freedom fundamental to our way of life.
Margaret Thatcher 20/01/1976
Category: Cold War, Appearance
The wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time against the wrong enemy.
Peter Kilfoyle 18/03/2003
On the planned war in Iraq
Category: War on Iraq
Hit them! Fight them! They are evil aggressors damned by God. You are victorious and they are defeated. Fight them as your brothers and sons fought them... Fight them everywhere as you are fighting them today, and do not give them a chance to catch their breath until they announce and carry out their withdrawal from the homes of Muslims.
Saddam Hussein 01/04/2003
Category: War on Iraq
We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.
George W Bush 31/03/2003
Category: War on Iraq
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
Tony Blair 27/03/2003
Speaking after the bodies of two British soldiers were shown on Arabic television
Category: War on Iraq
O great people, O splendid men, the mujahideen of our heroic Armed Forces, O sons of our glorious Arab nation. With the dawn prayer today, the reckless criminal, little Bush, and his henchmen carried out their crime with which they had been threatening Iraq and humanity.
Saddam Hussein 20/03/2003
On the beginning of the US strikes against Baghdad.
Category: War on Iraq
This will not be a campaign of half measures and we will accept no outcome but victory. My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others. And we will prevail.
George W Bush 20/03/2003
Announcing the beginning of the war on Iraq
Category: War on Iraq
I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself ...
Charles Kennedy 18/03/2003
Category: War on Iraq
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
Tony Blair 18/03/2003
House of Commons speech
Category: War on Iraq
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
Category: War on Iraq
I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
On weapons of mass destruction.
Category: War on Iraq
The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.
Vladimir Putin 2001
Category: Cold War
These events have divided the world into two camps. There are the believers and the unbelievers. Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion.
Osama bin Laden 2001
In a radio broadcast
Category: War on Terror, Religion
A war on terrorism implies that you are going to exterminate terrorism, and I don't see how anyone can do that. It's like exterminating evil. It can't be done.
Stella Rimington 2001
Category: War on Terror
When I was a kid I remember they put out the old Wild West wanted posters that said "Wanted Dead Or Alive". All I want and America wants is him brought to justice.
George W Bush 09/2001
Category: War on Terror
Let's give the terrorists a fair trial and then hang them.
Gary Hart 09/2001
Category: Capital Punishment, Terrorism, War on Terror
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.
Tony Blair 09/2001
Category: War on Terror
We can live in a world with airy-fairy civil liberties and believe the best in everybody and they destroy us. But that is not the world we live in.
David Blunkett 2001
Defending a Bill allowing police to hold suspected foreign terrorists in indefinite detention
Category: Civil Liberties, War on Terror
