I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
TONY BLAIRThe spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
More Tony Blair Quotes
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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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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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The class war is over.
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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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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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