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The class war is over.

Tony Blair

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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Business Country Growth
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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Confidence Fall Key Order
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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Belief Religion Religious
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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Abhorrent Hand Survival
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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Crime Law Order Party
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.
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Clarity Doubt Party
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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Country People View War
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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Government Grow Powerful Son
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Gears Reverse Way
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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Opportunity Responsibility Together
The class war is over.
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Class Happen Over War
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
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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Consumption Economy Years
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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Betrayal Fall Propaganda
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.
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Determination Give Money Successful
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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Issues Peaceful People
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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Giving Mean Office
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn’t just mean – it doesn’t mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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Integrity Mean Real Ride
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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Destiny Government Party
There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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Als Country Links People
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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Country Google Idea People
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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People Steps The Referendum
I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
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Country Emotion Minister People Prime
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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Journey Responsibility Thinking
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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Hate People Real
I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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Abuse Argument Modern

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