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Tony Blair warns about climate change and global interdependence. He explains that upsetting nature’s balance invites a reaction, and that the new world depends on how we treat each other. He also notes rising anti‑establishment anger that is shaking governments worldwide.

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I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

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

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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

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Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and…

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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up…

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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them,…

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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…

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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 of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

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If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world

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There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the…

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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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Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and…

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My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it…

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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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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not…

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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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After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there…

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I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a…

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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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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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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to…

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There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours……

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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this…

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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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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

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Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to…

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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

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Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

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Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human…

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People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges…

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My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions…

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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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When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed…

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We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves,…

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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…

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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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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.