Tony Blair Quotes

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Tony Blair

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 6, 1953

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

Tony Blair

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Look, I am very competitive.

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

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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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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

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

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My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

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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 threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

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