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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
- April
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- Nov 07, 2020
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is the best economic policy there is.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020