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Tony Blair

Government and Politics
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
4.5 · 41 votes · 180 reads
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People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
4.2 · 63 votes · 109 reads
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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.
4.3 · 58 votes · 43 reads
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So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
4.7 · 47 votes · 30 reads
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Thought and Reason
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
3.0 · 38 votes · 136 reads
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
4.6 · 55 votes · 188 reads
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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
3.3 · 26 votes · 13 reads
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Government and Politics
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
4.5 · 26 votes · 66 reads
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Defects
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
4.3 · 51 votes · 1 reads
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Society
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
3.0 · 40 votes · 0 reads
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
4.8 · 36 votes · 60 reads
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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 diplomatic
4.3 · 46 votes · 168 reads
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Government and Politics
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
4.2 · 9 votes · 161 reads
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There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.
3.0 · 63 votes · 113 reads
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Society
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
3.1 · 35 votes · 2 reads
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
4.6 · 20 votes · 101 reads
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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.
3.8 · 10 votes · 136 reads
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
4.2 · 5 votes · 96 reads
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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
5.0 · 30 votes · 144 reads
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Various
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
3.0 · 52 votes · 41 reads
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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
4.7 · 55 votes · 116 reads
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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.
3.3 · 21 votes · 8 reads
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Various
You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.
4.5 · 33 votes · 187 reads
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Art and Culture
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of pol
4.8 · 20 votes · 97 reads
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Nature
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
4.7 · 56 votes · 120 reads
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