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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.

Tony Blair

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
TONY BLAIR

History Loss Struggle
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
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
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
TONY BLAIR

Crime Law Order Party
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
TONY BLAIR

People Steps The Referendum
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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Confidence Fall Key Order
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn’t just mean – it doesn’t mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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Integrity Mean Real Ride
We are going to expand enormously — our economy, our consumption, over the years to come … But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
TONY BLAIR

Consumption Economy Years
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.
TONY BLAIR

Betrayal Fall Propaganda
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
TONY BLAIR

Globalization Paradox World
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
The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can’t be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
TONY BLAIR

Determination Give Money Successful
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.
TONY BLAIR

Journey Responsibility Thinking
I don’t like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don’t make a big thing of it.
TONY BLAIR

Belief Religion Religious
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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Opportunity Responsibility Together
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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Essential People Together

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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