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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.

Tony Blair

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.
TONY BLAIR

Clarity Doubt Party
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
TONY BLAIR

History Loss Struggle
I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
TONY BLAIR

Country Emotion Minister People Prime
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!
TONY BLAIR

Country Google Idea People
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
TONY BLAIR

Country Energy Immigration
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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Security Speech Spread
The class war is over.
TONY BLAIR

Class Happen Over War
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.
TONY BLAIR

Country People View War
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.
TONY BLAIR

Giving Mean Office
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.
TONY BLAIR

Journey Responsibility Thinking
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
TONY BLAIR

Crime Law Order Party
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
TONY BLAIR

People Steps The Referendum
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.
TONY BLAIR

Betrayal Fall Propaganda
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.
TONY BLAIR

Confidence Fall Key Order
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 BLAIR

Determination Give Money Successful
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.
TONY BLAIR

Belief Religion Religious

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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