Blair Quotes

• I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

  Michael Sheen

  Impersonators

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

  Doris Lessing

  Hated

  "September 11 wasn't that bad, says Nobel winner Lessing" by Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Lying, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, People, Different

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• I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

  Michael Moore

  War, Guy, Idiot

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• So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Zimbabwe, England, Let Me

  "Hands off Zimbabwe, Mugabe tells Blair", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  Harold Pinter

  Smile, Views, Hands

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

  Bianca Jagger

  Iraq, World, Hussein

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• Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Iraq, Voting

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• We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Coward

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• I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

  Jonathan Coe

  Real, Knowing, Cynical

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• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Rory Bremner

  Country, Sorry, War

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• I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

  Peter Mandelson

  Moved On, Politician, British

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• Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

  George Galloway

  Cliffs, Bottom, Remembered

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• I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Thinking, People

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• People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

  Bianca Jagger

  Powerful, Ambition, Men

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• Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

  John Hewson

  Party, Thrown

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

  Clare Short

  Break Up, Mean, Agreement

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• I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

  Howell Raines

  Land, Mines

  "N.Y. Times names Bill Keller as editor", www.cnn.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

  Bianca Jagger

  Leadership, Principles, Different

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• When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

  Rory Bremner

  Rights, Liberty, Would Be

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• I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

  Roger Waters

  Israel, Play, Foreign Policy

  "Breaking down the wall" by David Hirsh, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

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• When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Writing, Law, Caves

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