Malcolm Rifkind
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"Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind", Order of St Michael and St George/KCMG, Queen's Counsel/QC, Member of Parliament/MP (born 21 June 1946) is a British Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (UK)/Member of Parliament for Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)/Kensington. He served in various roles as a Cabinet (government)/cabinet minister under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland (1986–1990), Secretary of State for Defence/Defence Secretary (1992–1995) and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs/Foreign Secretary (1995–1997).

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Is an asset for the world, not just for its own people or for a particular regime.

A serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

We have to coordinate our efforts.

You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries more weight than any other single country.

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces.

It's not our gold, we don't own it and therefore we don't have the ability to simply by ourselves decide what should happen to it.

I believe that people are nervous and worried and anxious, ... I wouldn't say confidence has disappeared. The economy is still very buoyant. But people are worried.

Here we actually went in, created a war that would otherwise not have occurred and now we see a complete political vacuum.