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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

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 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
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 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
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
I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
TONY BLAIR

Country Emotion Minister People Prime
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
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
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
TONY BLAIR

Globalization Paradox World
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
TONY BLAIR

Crime Law Order Party
The class war is over.
TONY BLAIR

Class Happen Over War
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
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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Opportunity Responsibility Together
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

Essential People Together
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
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

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

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

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