Michael Howard Quotations

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

We didn't win - and let's be honest with each other: We didn't even come close to winning.

SHA-1 is currently showing some signs of weakness and may be completely insecure in the next few years. Since customers will use Microsoft products for more than two to three years, it's important we protect them by working now to improve the security of code for the future and banning the SHA-1 algorithm is a step in that direction.

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

One of the principle objectives of the terrorists is to divide us, one from another. So far ... they have failed in that objective. It's important that they continue to fail in that objective. That's why we believe it is so important that we approach these difficult issues in a spirit of consensus, with the objective of reaching agreement wherever we possibly can.

If this government has got an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has got to go. There is no excuse for this devastating failure to protect the public.

If this government has an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has to go.

I did notice there were some definite morale issues which definitely affected me and affected me wanting to stay there.

For the sake of our party and for the sake of our country, I hope that when it comes to the vote the proposed changes win your support.

If the traffic is flowing across the Internet, you have no idea how many routers the traffic has gone through, which can impact the quality of the call, ... But if the traffic travels on your own network, you can control the quality. That could be reason enough to build a network.

What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.

his presence would not be conducive to the public good.

I suspect that a much better approach would be to look at some of the other aspects of our judicial system. Just extending the period to three months is perhaps too simplistic and not the most effective way of dealing with this problem.

I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense.

We'll make up as many games as we can to keep the season balanced.

The decline of multi-service switches and the rise of core and edge routers are a sign of the times.

We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support.

We have seen the slow seepage of his authority turn into a hemorrhage.

We have made it absolutely clear. We think 28 days is the absolute limit of what should be permitted.

We see very considerable difficulties in that; that's a long time to hold someone without charge.

You are the deals-on-wheels Prime Minister - no wonder the Chancellor isn't a happy eater!

What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.

Based on our recent service provider studies, we see an intertwining of MPLS and Ethernet -- most providers of metro services are using or planning MPLS as a standard approach for augmenting and scaling their Layer 2 services. A cost-effective solution that has a mix of Layer 2, routing, and MPLS capabilities will help give these service providers the flexibility to expand their customer reach and increase revenue.

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

There's a great desire, at a time when the country faces such great danger, to work together. We're all in this together, and we all believe it's very important to show that the country is united in response to the danger we face, and we hope that it will be possible to reach agreement on further measures that will enable us to deal with this threat more effectively.

Proof of Concept testing is a critical step in the design and development process, helping to get the design job done right the first time. No vendor can afford to let customers detect problems after the switches and routers are deployed on an enterprise backbone. Neither can manufacturers afford unnecessary delays in going to market.

Something drastic would have to happen to stop him from running.

You simply cannot be in that shooting environment and not get blood on you. Several labs did extremely thorough examinations of Sarah Johnson's clothes and the reports indicated absolutely no blood.

This is not just a disaster for South Asia. It is a British disaster, too.

This grammar school boy is not going to take any lessons from a public school boy on children from less privileged backgrounds.

You can think of it as translating different languages.

For how long will this country have to put up with this lame duck prime minister, in office but not in power?

Doesn't the prime minister see, doesn't he really see, that this week marks the beginning of the final chapter of his administration?

It was apparently a very serious request. He already had people operating here, and who knows how history could have been rewritten if he had turned up here?

Nothing has changed over the last six months. He has just caved in. He's not getting anything in return for the concessions he is making.

I probably would have stayed in the community and continued to work there had I felt support at all levels.

Cisco has laid out a vision and architecture for Carrier Ethernet that provides service providers a broad selection of flexible options across all network domains. Cisco announced products today that deliver a number of important network services at cost-effective price points, adding to Cisco's already large portfolio.

His authority has disappeared virtually to vanishing point. He is in office but not in power.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

The logic of what they are saying is that there shouldn't be any limit at all and that we should have quite unlimited detention without charge.