Tony Blair
Statesman
1953-05-06
Quotes by Tony Blair
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The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.
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For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
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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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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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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
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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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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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