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.
TONY BLAIRIf 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.
More Tony Blair Quotes
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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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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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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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There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can’t be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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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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I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
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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.
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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.
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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
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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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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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I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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