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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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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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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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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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
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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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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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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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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 think I made the wrong career choice
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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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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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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.
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Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it
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I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
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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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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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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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The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.