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 BLAIRI 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 BLAIRI 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 BLAIRI 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 BLAIROne of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we’ve seen massive reductions in property.
TONY BLAIRI may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
TONY BLAIRThere 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 BLAIRI’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
TONY BLAIRIf there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
TONY BLAIRIf 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 BLAIRThe 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 BLAIRThere are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
TONY BLAIRI 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 BLAIRI’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
TONY BLAIRSociety works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
TONY BLAIRWe 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 BLAIRWe 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.
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