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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. "

Tony Blair

Now

Conflict

Community

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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. "

" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "

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

Tony Blair

Myself

Office

" 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. "

" By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" 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. "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

Tony Blair

Trying

Life

" In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. "

" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "

" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "

" 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. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

Tony Blair

Critic

Doer

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

" Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. "

" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "

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

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

Tony Blair

Way

Gear

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

" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "

Tony Blair

Country

I Am