Tony Blair Quotes
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One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
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There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.
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What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.
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Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.
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If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.
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The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.
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Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
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One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.
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There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.
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The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.
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My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.
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The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.
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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
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Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
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My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
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If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
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I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
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For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.
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Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
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There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.