Tony Blair Quotes
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Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.
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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
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We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.
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There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
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The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
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A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.
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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
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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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No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
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A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
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The class war is over.
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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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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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.