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Tony Blair warns that upsetting nature’s balance can bring a reaction, showing his concern for the environment. He criticizes populist talk that makes noise but no real policy. He also stresses that ordinary people should choose freedom over tyranny and democracy over dictatorship.

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The British people are the boss.

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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

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Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

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Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

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Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

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The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

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

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I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the…

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Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

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People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

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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…

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I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo.…

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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything…

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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity…

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One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different…

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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…

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The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey,…

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Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that…

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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in…

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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…

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There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's…

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I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center…

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I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know,…

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Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And,…

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There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so...…

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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

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If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

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I think most people who have dealt with me, think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

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I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

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She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories…

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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government,…

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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest…

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When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was…

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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,…

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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…

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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The…

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The fear of missing out means that today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is…

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There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of…

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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if…

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the…

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she…

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all…

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and…

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for

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

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually,…

How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of…

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.