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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.

Tony Blair

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

Abuse Argument Modern
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
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn’t just mean – it doesn’t mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
TONY BLAIR

Integrity Mean Real Ride
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.
TONY BLAIR

Giving Mean Office
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
TONY BLAIR

Globalization Paradox World
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
The class war is over.
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Class Happen Over War
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.
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Belief Religion Religious
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.
TONY BLAIR

Journey Responsibility Thinking
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
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Government Grow Powerful Son
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
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 may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
TONY BLAIR

Abhorrent Hand Survival
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

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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