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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. (Tony Blair)
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. View quote
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I ... appeal to you and all your colleagues to do everything possible to avoid tension and violence. View quote
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If it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. View quote
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It is 50 years old, it is going in the wrong direction. It is time for real reform. The only way to get that is to leave. View quote
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. View quote
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My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. View quote
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By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. View quote
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So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister. View quote
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' View quote
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. (Tony Blair)
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. View quote
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. View quote
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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. View quote
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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. View quote
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here. View quote
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I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Tony Blair)
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don't act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don't have the right to do that. View quote
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre. View quote
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. View quote
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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. View quote
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