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" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "
Tony Blair
Only
You
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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April
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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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" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "
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I Believe
Believe
Right
" 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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Perspective
" 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
" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "
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Know
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" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "
Tony Blair
Your
Choice
Power
" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "
Tony Blair
Knows
Stand
No-One
" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "
Tony Blair
Come
Change
Politics
" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "
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Wealth
Words
Dependent
" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "
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Once
Nuclear
Goes
" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "
Tony Blair
Public Service
People
Say
" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "
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End
Lead
People
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Faith
World
Work
" Be a doer and not a critic. "
Tony Blair
Critic
Doer
" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "
Tony Blair
Understand
Party
Adore
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Walk
Life
Politics
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Talk
You
Experience
" Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. "
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Been
Human
Never
" 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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Nature
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People
" 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
" So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister. "
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Phone
Day
Got
" 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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Divide
Consequences
Terrorism
" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "
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Just
" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "
Tony Blair
Politics
Hope
Government