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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 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
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.
TONY BLAIR

Destiny Government Party
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
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.
TONY BLAIR

Issues Peaceful People
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
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
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
TONY BLAIR

Gears Reverse Way
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
TONY BLAIR

History Loss Struggle
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
TONY BLAIR

Country Energy Immigration
The class war is over.
TONY BLAIR

Class Happen Over War
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
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
TONY BLAIR

Opportunity Responsibility Together
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 may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
TONY BLAIR

Abhorrent Hand Survival
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

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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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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