Tony Blair Quotes
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It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
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There's a great frustration with the system. There's a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I've got enough problems in my own politics.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.
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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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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 I made the wrong career choice
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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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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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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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We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.
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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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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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The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
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Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
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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.
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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
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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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A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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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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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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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.