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Thinking Quotes by Tony Blair

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Tony Blair talks about how upsetting nature’s balance can bring back a reaction, so we should protect the environment. He says leaders must keep checking their ideas and be ready to change them. He also believes real political courage means daring to think in fresh ways and make tough decisions.

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I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

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I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

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

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I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

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I think I made the wrong career choice

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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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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 don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

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I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

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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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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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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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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but…

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I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view…

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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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What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one…

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I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about…

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As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the…

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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes…

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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 think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we…

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What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements…

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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 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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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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I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is…

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I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless…

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I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views…

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I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive…

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I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that…

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I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a…

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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…

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I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers…

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I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's…

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It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe,…

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I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of…

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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done…

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What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can…

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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.