This was an absolutely fundamental charge, ... This was an allegation that we had behaved in a way which ... if true would have merited my resignation. |
this was not an attack on America alone. This was an attack on the free and democratic world. And it is a responsibility the free and democratic world has to shoulder together. |
This year, 2006, is a very decisive year for Northern Ireland. |
Though it is terrible that these terrorist attacks took place ... over the past few years our security services and our police have done an immense amount to protect this country also, |
Though obviously there are substantial areas of disagreement and difficulty...we are going to work with complete determination and some hope that we can find a way through. |
Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse, |
Though we disagreed over Iraq, I always respected the way in which he put his case, |
Thousands of people up and down the country have been amazingly stoical in these circumstances, |
Thousands of people were killed in cold blood in the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen, |
thugs on the run. |
time to move on. |
To be honest, I don't think people are going, at least in the short term, to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto. |
to do even more. |
to scare people and frighten them. |
To succeed, we have to be quick on our feet, ... We have to embrace the Internet now, not in a few years time. Most of all, if we are to succeed, knowledge and how we use it need to be at the heart of all that we do. |