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" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "
Tony Blair
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" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "
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" Be a doer and not a critic. "
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" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "
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" Education is the best economic policy there is. "
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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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" 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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" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "
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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. "
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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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" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "
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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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" 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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" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "
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" The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. "
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" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "
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" In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. "
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" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "
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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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" Look, I am very competitive. "
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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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" Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. "
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Order
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" Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. "
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" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "
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" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "
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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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" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "
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" 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. "
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" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "
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