"I want my son to grow up in……" — Tony Blair
"I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around."
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193 Quotes by Tony Blair
Tony Blair has 193 quotes on this site.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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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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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out…
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea.…
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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to…
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
— Joe Arpaio
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was…
— Bill Ayers
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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