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" 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
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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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" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "
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" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "
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" 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. "
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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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" So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "
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" 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. "
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Without
Live
" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "
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Myself
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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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Battle
America
" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "
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Lead
People
" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "
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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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" 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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" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "
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" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "
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Just
" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "
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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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" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "
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Words
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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 have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "
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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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" 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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" However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. "
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