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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.

Tony Blair

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.
TONY BLAIR

Government Grow Powerful Son
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
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
There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
TONY BLAIR

Als Country Links People
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
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
TONY BLAIR

Hate People Real
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn’t just mean – it doesn’t mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
TONY BLAIR

Integrity Mean Real Ride
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
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
TONY BLAIR

Gears Reverse Way
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.
TONY BLAIR

Consumption Economy Years
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
TONY BLAIR

Security Speech Spread
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
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
I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
TONY BLAIR

Abuse Argument Modern
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

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