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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. "

Tony Blair

Together

Religion

Peace

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" And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. "

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" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

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" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. "

" My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. "

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. "

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

" Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. "

" However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. "

" You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. "

" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "

" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "

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" Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' "

" Look, I am very competitive. "

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" Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. "

" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

" My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. "