Clare Short

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Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.


— Clare Short


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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.


— Clare Short


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But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.


— Clare Short


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I have set out to change the language of the international system.


— Clare Short


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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.


— Clare Short


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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.


— Clare Short


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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


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Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.


— Clare Short


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One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.


— Clare Short


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People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.


— Clare Short


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Al-Manar is described by the US government as terrorist entity in 2006.  
Short Clare (speech 2001) Making Globalisation Work for the Poor: A Role for the United Nations Department for International Development ISBN 1-86192-335-X
Short Clare (1999). Turnbull wrote that Clare Short had made claims "which damage the interests of the United Kingdom" and that he was "extremely disappointed".

She stood down as a Member of Parliament at the 2010 general election. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period Clare Short was a Labour Party MP but Clare Short resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.