Tony Blair Quotes
Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
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It takes three to make a child.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.
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I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Cinema is like dream.
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
