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" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "
Tony Blair
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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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" Look, I am very competitive. "
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" The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. "
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" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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.' "
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" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "
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" Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. "
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" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "
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" It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. "
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" In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. "
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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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" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "
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" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "
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" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "
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Choice
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" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "
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" 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. "
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" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "
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" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "
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Survival
" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "
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" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "
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" I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "
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