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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.

Tony Blair

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
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Hate People Real
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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Country Energy Immigration
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
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Gears Reverse Way
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
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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Government Grow Powerful Son
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
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
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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History Loss Struggle
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
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

Integrity Mean Real Ride
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
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
I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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Abuse Argument Modern
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

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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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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