Tony Blair Quotes
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
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...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
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There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.
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I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
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Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
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I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
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In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
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The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.
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We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.
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I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!
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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
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I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.
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How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.
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I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.
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After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.
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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
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I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".
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We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
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As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
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Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.
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One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.