Tony Blair Quotes

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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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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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

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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 didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

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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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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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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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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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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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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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Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

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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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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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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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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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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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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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