Tony Blair Quotes
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
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The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
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In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.
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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
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All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
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I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.
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Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
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We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
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I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.
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All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland
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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
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The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'
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The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.
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The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
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Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
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Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.
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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.
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Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.