There's a lot of breast thumping as leaders take up their negotiation positions, and certainly Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have indicated that this summit could turn into a real standoff. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Both sides know that with stock markets everywhere in free fall it is hardly the time to spark an all-out trade war. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
stricter standards applied to those who influence impressionable young people. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
But one thing he didn't address, having raised in his speech the suggestion that politics in France had to change, he didn't have anything to suggest how the political system should change. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
If the French vote 'no,' most analysts believe it would destroy any possibility of Chirac standing again for the presidency in 2007. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
It has dominated the media, ... There is deep worry about the image of the British army and deep worry about the effect on Iraqi elections. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense a mark of respect for Tony Blair, an attempt to show outside world -- because George Bush doesn't voyage outside the United States all that easily -- it's a sign that he takes him seriously and listens to his advice. It gives him some sort of political payback. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Standing shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. in the war against terrorism, Blair knows, he has made Britain a potential terrorist target too. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
The whole chemistry of the relationship between Moscow and the West is really changing now. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Although he has reaffirmed his readiness to work with European leaders in the Balkans -- . Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Blair came through the potentially difficult ordeal by confronting the main issues, by acknowledging how the Iraq issue had divided his party. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Basically, he has to go back to the drawing board ... to have another go at it, ... It's not a crisis or a complete disaster. It's a mess and it's a humiliation. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
They (UK officials) are looking at this as something of a triumph, something of a justification for invading Iraq. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
Jean-Marie Le Pen was like a man who just had six birthdays in one day. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0
It would be interesting to know how much Tony Blair will raise those questions in private, although in public he will continue to say that such matters are for commanders on the ground. Robin Oakley More Robin Oakley Quotes 0