Left Quotes by Tony Blair

15 Left quotes by Tony Blair

Tony Blair’s fifteen comments on the Left reveal his attempt to balance progressive ideals with pragmatic governance. His language blends optimism with a call for responsible reform.

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So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the…

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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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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'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's…

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A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we…

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I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the…

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We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever…

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The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but…

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My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to…

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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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If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment,…

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Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite…

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The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And…

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I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

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

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

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

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