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This is not a time for soundbites. We've left them at home. I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders.
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We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.
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Arrayed against us: the forces of conservatism, the cynics, the elites, the establishment. On our side, the forces of modernity and justice.
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We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years–contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence–Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
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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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What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.
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As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again... This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
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Freedom of information: Three harmless words. I look at those words as I write them, and feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders. You idiot. You naïve, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop.
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The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we're not actually fighting it properly. We're not actually standing up to these people and saying, "It's not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn't justified."
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Go round smiling at everyone, and get other people to shoot them.
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So, of course, the visions are painted in the colours of the rainbow, and the reality is sketched in duller tones of black and white and grey. But I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That is your call. But believe one thing, if nothing else. I did what I thought was right for our country.
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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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Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
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The state of Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world.
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The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.
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Britton:
If you had known then that there were no WMDs, would you still have gone on?
Blair:
I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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May 6, 1953
(age 70)
Bio:
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He now runs a consultancy business and performs charitable work.
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