Tony Blair Quotes
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.
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I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
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I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.
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There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
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I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
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You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
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It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
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I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.
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I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.