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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
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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.
Tony Blair
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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
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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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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
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There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.
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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.
Tony Blair -
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony Blair
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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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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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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I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.
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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
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Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
Tony Blair
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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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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.
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'
Tony Blair
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I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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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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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Tony Blair