David Davis Quotations

This raises serious questions about the monitoring of terror suspects. The government should now answer our call for an independent inquiry so that the lessons of the July bombings can be learned.

Last year we called for the government to put in place a rigorous method of monitoring the continuing safety of those returned to Zimbabwe. The government must now show they have done this and not simply wasted the past few months. Otherwise, we will not know the fate of the people sent back and what the Mugabe regime does to them.

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

If we achieve the labor savings we are seeking, losses will be $400 million (in 2006).

He was always encouraging me. He just told me I was better suited for football.

He should take responsibility for what has been a massive failure.

He was a great coach. All the guys respected him.

I think it would have been much easier just to say to the party in the country 'why don't we reverse the order - you have the first hit and MPs have the last say'

It is entirely possible that having 90 days as a detention time could actually help be a recruiting sergeant for terrorists.

Well it is a darn shame we have to have something bad happen to get people interested, but that's kind of what it takes. And if there's any benefit at all from disasters outside of our area, it would be that, that other people say well it could happen to me.

Well, it is a breach of the law, so if it was recent, the answer would be no.

Unfortunately this failure was a direct consequence of the government's chaotic asylum policy and its porous borders.

We are reluctant to talk because of significant fear of retaliation, being disciplined or fired.

The question has to be asked, 'What has the existing criminal justice system been doing over the past eight years?' This Government has form for headline-grabbing announcements, only to fail to follow up with any delivery.

This report reinforces our call for a clearly understandable and public system of alert and threat levels, like they have in America.

We just enjoy people, and it feels good to help them. We want to give back to the community, because it's given so much to us.

This ongoing confused message will lead some to keep thinking it is legal.

This officer was killed by someone who should have been deported when his asylum application failed,

This thing of traveling in Illinois, and being eaten up by bed bugs, and mosquitoes (fleas you know don't trouble me much) is not what it's cracked up to be.

Border controls and a border police force to administer those controls is exactly what we need.

Far from being tough on terror it may turn out to be a gift for the terrorists.

Far from being tough on terror it may end up being a gift for terrorists.

Of course we're biased out there with the Pac-10. So if we could have USC and Texas, it would be just special, ... It would be as good a game as we could hope for.

Often the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities than with promoting common values of nationhood. We should learn lessons from abroad, from the United States, where pride in the nation's values is much more prevalent among minorities than here.

Northwest, Delta it seems so many airlines are in this situation. It's not in our control, and there is not a whole lot to do except carry on.

Do you know how many people ask me why I didn't hold you in contempt after the last stunt you pulled in this courtroom?

They say you react seriously as you do practice, ... so this is one thing that we do with the exercise.

They display their intolerance of racism with their white and black bands,

This is the latest in a long line of failures. This serial incompetence beggars belief.

The blue bands have raised money to highlight awareness of bullying. This generation wants a government that helps their neighbour.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

Clearly it is an embarrassment that the party rank and file turned down a proposal from the leadership of the rank and file - from the chairman - but that's by the by, we have to deal with that.

This is no dog-and-pony show, ... Your apology is too late, Mr. Lawson.

The Home Office must get an urgent grip on this problem. They are failing in their principle responsibility to protect the citizens of this country.

The idea that you can't leave the country without having your name put on a national identity register is an interesting idea of voluntary. This is a creeping compulsion.