If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
TONY BLAIRThe 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.
More Tony Blair Quotes
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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.
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I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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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.
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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.
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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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I’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
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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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I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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The class war is over.
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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.
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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.
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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
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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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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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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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