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.
TONY BLAIRIf 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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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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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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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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The class war is over.
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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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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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I haven’t got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
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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.
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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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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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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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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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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