Blair Quotes - Page 3

• What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  War, Thinking, Years

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". Interview with James Chapman, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  People, Around The World, Poverty

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• If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

  Richard Dawkins

  War, Trials, Crime

  "Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 03, 2007.

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• I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

  Boris Johnson

  Reality, Mad, Needs

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• First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Determination, Real, War

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• Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Britain

  "What they said in 2001". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

  Rory Bremner

  Judgment, Said, Judged

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• It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony....It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured.

  George Galloway

  Country, Iraq, People

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• How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, School, Government

  "Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2006.

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• For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

  Alastair Campbell

  Liars, Paper, Telling The Truth

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

  Alastair Campbell

  Book, Impossible, Brilliant

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Ignorance, Kids

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• I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Player, Next Day

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sunday, Islands, President

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• The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

  Andrew Marr

  Sorry, Eye, Iraq

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• I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that the security of the nation is the first duty of any government but at the same time for me going to war would always be the last resort. I would exhaust all other opportunities first.

  Andrea Leadsom

  War, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?

  Doris Lessing

  New York, White, People

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. June 1999.

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• The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.

  John Pilger

  Strong, Military, Party

  Source: progressive.org

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• Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Ideas, White

  "Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust". Nelson Mandela's speech at the International Women's Forum in Johannesburg, prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, edition.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

  David Hockney

  War, Fighting, Army

  "Interview: Jasper Gerard meets David Hockney". www.thetimes.co.uk. October 02, 2005.

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• As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

  George Galloway

  Two, Arses, Brown

  "Rescuing something labour from the wreckage", The Guardian, May 9, 2006.

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• We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Blood, Land, Zimbabwe

  Robert Mugabe's speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, September 2, 2002.

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• Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

  Robin Cook

  Party, Guessing, Might

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• Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

  George Clooney

  Names, Damn, Sharon

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