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I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Defence
Expected
Privilege
Secretary
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On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Bench
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I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Backgrounds
Bothered
Long
Long Time Ago
Tough
Time Long Long Time
Background
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Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Cold
Cold War
Putin
War World Cold War
Equally
Policies
Stalin
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Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Despite
Presidential
Teamwork
Essential
Increasingly
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The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Casualties
Civilian Casualties
Unnecessary
Civilian
Inflict
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I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
History
Defence
Interest
Military
Always Anything More
Anything
Had
Anything Else
Read
Else
Subject
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I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Defence
Secretary
Appointed
Armed
Forces
Minister
Prior
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We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Domestic
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It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Appreciated
British
Decided
Facial
Moustache
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Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Aim
Casualties
Caught
Insurgency
Taliban
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Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Adaptable
Conflict
Defence
Respond
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If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Election
Health Care
Health People Care
Manifesto
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If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Armed
Sergeant
Forces
Rank
Similar
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You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Compromise
Resign
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I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Thesis
Pretend
Doctorate
Strengths
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We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghan
Better Future
Helping
Future Hope Better
Afghan People
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I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Contribution
Defence
Secretary
Honoured
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Cooking
Growing Up
Italian
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It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Core
Core Values
Despite
Teamwork
Tories
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My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Another Life
Hero
Spirit
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The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghan
Lasting
Reasoning
Security Forces
Forces
Terrorists
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My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Officers
Heroes
Armed
Sergeant
Forces
Rank
Similar
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We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghanistan
Inspire
July
September
Attacks
Haven
Terrorists
We Cannot
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We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
War
Country
Teeth
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We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghanistan
Cold
Cold War
Devastated
Teeth
Armed
Socially
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I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Armed
Forces
Instinctively
Strengths
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As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Defence
Intervening
Staff
Tackling
Chief
Defending
Overseas
Threats
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghanistan
Confronting
Insurgency
National Security
Prevent
Reduced
Returning
Terrorists
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When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Action
Behave
Individualistic
Labour
Labour Party
Parliament
Years Ago
Me Feel Way
Above
Collective
Elected
Struck
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I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Appreciated
Facial
Hair
Moustache
People
Scar
Teeth
Me People True
Me Keep People
Bust
Hid
Tooth
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Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Afghanistan
Bedrock
Britain
Defence
National Security
Profound
Structure
Watches
Years
Alliance
Undermine
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We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Inspiring
Loyalty
Capable
Colleagues
Environment
Genuinely
Project
Present
Policies
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