Tony Blair Quotes - Page 14

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• There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.

  Tony Blair

  Queens, Taken, Grief

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.

  Tony Blair

  People, Election, Happens

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.

  Tony Blair

  Views, People, Giving

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Europe, Immigration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Believe, Attachment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Media, Today

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Desire, Majority

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can see, look into Austria - you've got a far-right candidate who may become the president because he's in a close-run race.

  Tony Blair

  Running, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

  Tony Blair

  People, Feelings

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

  Tony Blair

  Reality, Media, Amplify

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

  Tony Blair

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Thinking, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Political, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

  Tony Blair

  Past, Foreign Policy, Term

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Views, Bills

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Differences, Use

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, Politician, Decent

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

  Tony Blair

  Guy, Ask Me, American Politics

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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