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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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  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Tony Blair's speech at the 2004 Labour conference in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

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• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

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  Iraq, Invasion, Weapons

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• There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

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  Country, Media, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

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  Terrible Events, Profound, World

  "They said...", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

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  Space, Choices, Quality

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

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  Media, Creative, Healthy

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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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  War, Wmd, Iraq

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

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  Buddhism, Understanding, Six

  "Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

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  Liberty, World, Modern

  Valedictory Address to the Labour Party Conference, delivered 26 September 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom

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

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  Ideas, Choices, Abortion

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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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  America, Battle, United States

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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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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  Decision, Trying, Pros And Cons

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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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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  Hands, Survival, Abhorrent

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

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  Choices, Surrender, Terrorist

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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  Downing Street, Boss, Prime

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• Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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  Party, Order, Law

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

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  Sleep, Wife, Nuclear

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

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  Party, Believe, People

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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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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  Real, World, Hopeless

  Valedictory Address to the Labour Party Conference, delivered 26 September 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

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  Spotlight, Piercings, Matter

  Tony Blair's Valedictory Speech to the Party Conference, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2006.

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• Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

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  Time, Shame, Eternity

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

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  Years, Energy, Cost

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

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  Challenges, Growth, Environmental

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• The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

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  Important, Terrorism, Britain

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• Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

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  Race, Long, Challenges

  "Climate Change: The UK Programme 2006". Book by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, March 28, 2006.

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