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TONY BLAIRI 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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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’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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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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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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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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I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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