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 BLAIRThe spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
More Tony Blair Quotes
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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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I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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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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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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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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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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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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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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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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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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The class war is over.
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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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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’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
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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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