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 BLAIRYou 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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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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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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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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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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The class war is over.
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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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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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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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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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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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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
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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 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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