Tony Blair Quotes
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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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Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
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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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Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this the vote on the Iraq war through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'
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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
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Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
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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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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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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
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I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
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The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
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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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There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.
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The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.
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People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
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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 spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.