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I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.

Tony Blair

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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Hate People Real
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
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Journey Responsibility Thinking
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.
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Giving Mean Office
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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Crime Law Order Party
I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
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Country Emotion Minister People Prime
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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Opportunity Responsibility Together
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
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Issues Peaceful People
I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
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Abhorrent Hand Survival
I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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Abuse Argument Modern
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
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Destiny Government Party
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
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Business Country Growth
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
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Country People View War
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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Als Country Links People
We fall for… the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that’s always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.
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Betrayal Fall Propaganda

I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.

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