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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 dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair

Freedom, Democracy, Law

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. - Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. Tony Blair

Win, The Right Thing, Better

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. Tony Blair

Purpose, Terrorism, Act

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair

Leadership, Art, Easy

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. Tony Blair

Woman, Choice, You

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. Tony Blair

Peace, War, Today

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. Tony Blair

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. Tony Blair

Choice, Understanding

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. Tony Blair

Change, Politics, Party

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Tony Blair

Today, Law, Party

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. Tony Blair

Leader, Time, Journey

Education is the best economic policy there is. Tony Blair

Education, Best, Policy

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. Tony Blair

Great, People, Choice

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. Tony Blair

Action, Inaction, Whatever

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. Tony Blair

World, Reality, Values

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. Tony Blair

Life, Relationship, Politics

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 it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. Tony Blair

Experience, Politics, Think

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. Tony Blair

Life, Wife, You

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

World, Long, Live

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. Tony Blair

End, People, Lead

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. Tony Blair

Government, Priorities

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. Tony Blair

Believe, I Believe, Right

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. Tony Blair

Children, War, Generation

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. Tony Blair

Community, Conflict, Now

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular. Tony Blair

Journey, Government, End

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. Tony Blair

Nature, Together, I Am

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