Tony Blair Quotes

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I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Tony Blair
Powers that are constitutionally there can be used but the Scottish Labour Party is not planning to raise income tax and once the power is given it is like any parish council: it's got the right to exercise it.

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I was born in 1953, a child of the Cold War era, raised amid the constant fear of a conflict with the potential to destroy humanity. Whatever other dangers may exist, no such fear exists today. Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. That is a prize beyond value.

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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

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Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

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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 Joint Intelligence Committee] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population, and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

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The battles of this century … are less likely to be the product of extreme political ideology—like those of the 20th century—but they could easily be fought around the questions of cultural or religious difference.

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In these past few days, the irresistible force, the political will, has met the immovable object, the legacy of the past, and we have moved it.

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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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Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

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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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Isn't it extraordinary that the Prime Minister of our country can't even urge his Party to back his own position. Weak! Weak! Weak!

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A New Britain where the extraordinary talent of the British people is liberated from the forces of conservatism that so long have held them back, to create a model 21st century nation, based not on privilege, class or background, but on the equal worth of all.

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Presenter: [Is Britain] prepared to send troops to commit themselves, to pay the blood price?
Tony Blair: Yes. What is important though is that at moments of crisis they [the USA]…need to know, 'Are you prepared to commit, are you prepared to be there when the shooting starts?'

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Some may belittle politics but we who are engaged in it know that it is where people stand tall. Although I know that it has many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. If it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. I wish everyone, friend or foe, well. That is that. The end.

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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

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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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However much the right hon. gentleman may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.

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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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My project will be complete when the Labour party learns to love Peter Mandelson.

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For the moment, let me say this: 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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If we don't act now, we can't keep those people down there forever. We can't wait forever. 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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Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

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This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation.

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Look, I'm a person, an individual with a character and part of my character is about what I believe in and part of my beliefs obviously is a religious conviction. I simply hesitate whenever I get drawn into this territory because I have found, over time, that it either leads to people misunderstanding the basis upon which you are taking decisions or it leads to people trying to colonise God or religion for one particular political position. I make no claims to that at all.

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I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so … prudent.

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There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.

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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

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We need two or three eye-catching initiatives…I should be personally associated with as much of this as possible.

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