And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

Tony Blair

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As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

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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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Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end. by Tony Blair

Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.

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Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to... by Tony Blair

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

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Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.

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We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.

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The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

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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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I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movem... by Tony Blair

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

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I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election. by Tony Blair

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.

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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win... by Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

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There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

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Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

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If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

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