Robin Oakley Quotations

Bush will be there to show that the rest of the world is still interested in this peace process and to kick it along.

Bush isn't going to follow the detail to the same extent (as Clinton), but he is helping to put his imprimatur on that process in an important week, when Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern put forward their latest proposals to revive the peace process,

If the French vote 'no,' most analysts believe it would destroy any possibility of Chirac standing again for the presidency in 2007,

such a hot potato that it was dropped.

incredible charm offensive ... (which) is starting to show dividends.

He did not say how people are going to change the technocrats who seem to be running French politics, who have alienated the people and who have gained Le Pen his temporary success.

They are now talking much more about the suffering of the Iraqi people. The British government used to say nothing of regime change, ... both (leaders) need a second U.N. resolution.

We are not going to see a full NATO operation,

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,

Both sides know that with stock markets everywhere in free fall it is hardly the time to spark an all-out trade war.