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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

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

Globalization Paradox World
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.
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Business Country Growth
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!
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Country Google Idea People
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
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
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
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.
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Confidence Fall Key Order
The class war is over.
TONY BLAIR

Class Happen Over War
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
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.
TONY BLAIR

Gears Reverse Way
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
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

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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