Tony Blair Quotes
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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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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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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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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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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
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It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.
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We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
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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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I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.
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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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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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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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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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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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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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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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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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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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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.