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" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "
Tony Blair
Place
World
Together
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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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" 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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" 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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" But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. "
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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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" 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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" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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World
Will
" 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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Feel
Music
Rock
" 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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Party
Government
Power
" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "
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Once
Nuclear
Goes
" 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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Consequences
Terrorism
" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "
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Am
Country
I Am
" 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. "
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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
Journey
" In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. "
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Future
Time
Moment
" 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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Best
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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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