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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.

Tony Blair

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
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Gears Reverse Way
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
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
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
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
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
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
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 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
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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Security Speech Spread
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
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
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.
TONY BLAIR

Business Country Growth
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

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