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 BLAIRI want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
More Tony Blair Quotes
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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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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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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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I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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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 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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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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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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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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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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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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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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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 may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
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