989 ordspråk av Tony Blair
Tony Blair
I know there's a lot of disagreement in the country about the wisdom of my decision to order the action,
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I know this myself.
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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
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I need you to be compassionate as you've always said you were and help me, help me live so that I can see my wife and son.
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I never doubted after September 11th that our place was alongside America, and I don't doubt it now,
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I obviously need to get to the gym.
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I refute any suggestion we misled Parliament or the country totally,
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I remember the early meetings leading up to the Good Friday Agreement and the slightly bemused astonishment of all and sundry as, by a mixture of determination, charm and sheer life force, she bowled everyone over,
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I say to you in all frankness, this is the only way forward for Northern Ireland, ... I ask all of you, the people of Northern Ireland, that you give it a chance to work.
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I see no reason, I have to say, to change that decision.
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I simply say to him that if he believes that the will of the international community has weakened in any way, I think he is mistaken. I think that will is there,
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I sincerely believe that EU membership is Turkey's future,
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I somehow feel we're not being entirely persuasive in certain quarters,
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I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time.
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I still think there is a woeful complacency about a lot of the public debate about this.
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