Robin Cook Quotes
There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors
Cook, Robin. "Digital Democracy." Hansard Society, London, 10 Jan. 2002.
She had not been able to get some of questions answered about the then current policy of holding suspected undocumented immigrants with a criminal record in detention until deportation. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, in response to the Sequester law was reducing costs by using other forms of monitoring for suspects with minor criminal records. Instead of writing the Secretary—an Arizona ex Governor herself—or the President—and waiting a reasonable time for a response, she reached this strange conclusion the following day. An immigration basher, she rarely passed up an opportunity to make a public dramatic statement bashing the immigration policies and practices of America.
Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 1983 until his death and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001, when he was replaced by Jack Straw. He then served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2001 until 2003.
