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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Children, War, Generations

  "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Long Ago, People

  Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House

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• One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

  Tony Blair

  World, Paradox, Globalization

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

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• I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

  Tony Blair

  Politician, Sleeves, I Can

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

  Tony Blair

  Issues, People, Peaceful

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Doubt

  House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 406, col. 161, publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2003.

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Today's World, Danger

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

  Tony Blair

  Phones, Prime, Ministers

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• What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

  Tony Blair

  Order, People, Population

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

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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

  Tony Blair

  Community, Problem, Economics

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Special, World, Earth

  "Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech". Times Online, May 10, 2007.

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• Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

  Tony Blair

  Europe, Want, Recognition

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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

  Tony Blair

  Real, Growth, Progress

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Sacrifice

  Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Swings, Management

  "Blair's Euro statement". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 1999.

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• Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Wealth, Prosperity

  Tony Blair's Labour Speech to the Conference in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

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

  Tony Blair

  Inspiring, Leadership, Winning

  Tony Blair during House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. November 9, 2005.

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• We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Political Will, Issues

  "Can she sustain it?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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• There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Community

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

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• I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

  Tony Blair

  Prime, Ministers, Prime Minister

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• Education, education, education

  Tony Blair

  "Tony Blair on education" by Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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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.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Journey, Thinking

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• The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

  Tony Blair

  Simple, Issues, People

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

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• Be a doer and not a critic.

  Tony Blair

  Doers, Critics

  "Tony Blair At Colby College: ‘Are We An Empire That’s Fading?’" by Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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