Tony Blair Quotes

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Tony Blair

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 6, 1953

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

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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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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

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

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People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

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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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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 cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

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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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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

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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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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

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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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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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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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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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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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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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