Christopher Meyer Quotations

We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fighter and bomber aircraft on 48 hours notice, if the need should arise.

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,

If the Iraqis want the sanctions lifted sooner rather than later, then what they have to do is to comply with all the Security Council resolutions which are relevant in this case as quickly as possible. The answer lies in their own hands.

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

We may have been the junior partner in the enterprise, but the ace up our sleeve was that America did not want to go it alone.

I think the U.S. and ourselves are on the horns of an absolutely impossible dilemma.

Britain should have made its participation in any war dependent on a fully worked-out plan, agreed by both sides, for the rehabilitation of Iraq after Saddam's demise,

Blair chose to take his stand ... from the highest moral ground, ... It is the definitive riposte to 'Blair the Poodle', seduced though he and his team always appeared to be by the proximity and glamour of American power.

I like Blair, ... But he probably doesn't like me now.

Indeed, if it all went wrong at the UN, and the U.S. was faced with going to war alone, it seemed to me that Bush might blink.