Tony Blair Quotes
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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
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I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
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Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.
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I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.
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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
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I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.
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She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
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Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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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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Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.
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I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.
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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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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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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.