"It shall be a government rooted in strong values. Values of justice and progress and community, the values that have guided me all my political life. For the government is ready with the courage to embrace the new ideas necessary to make those values live again for today's world. A government of practical measures in pursuit of noble causes."
- May 2nd 1997 Victory Speech.
(Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbhTVJz09G0 December 6th 2010)
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"It will be a government that seeks to restore trust in politics in this country."
- May 2nd 1997 First Downing Street Speech.
(BBC Website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3750847.stm May 11th 2007)
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"She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and minds forever."
- 31st June 1997 Announcing Princess Diana's death.
(BBC Website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3750847.stm May 11th 2007)
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"In these past few days, the irrisistable force, the political will, has met the immovable object, the legacy of the past, and it has actually moved it. The idea that if one side wins something in Northern Ireland the other side loses is gone. The essence of what we have agreed is a choice, we are all winners or losers. It is mutually assured benefit or mutually assured destruction here".
- Good Friday Agreement Speech.
(Youtube videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPnQPzo1dc&feature=relmfu
December 6th 2010)
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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 world around us."
- 2nd October 2001 Reacting to the 911 Terrorist Attacks.
(BBC Website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3750847.stm May 11th 2007)
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" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is."
- 8th November 2002 On Iraq.
(BBC Website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3750847.stm May 11th 2007)
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" The personal bond - like a marriage - is also a political bond which is founded on shared values and that common belief ... Occasionally you can disagree."
- April 2005 On Gordon Brown.
(The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/apr/26/tonyblair.labour April 26th 2007)
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"When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated. When they seek to change our country, our way of life by these measures, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our rescue we will not be divided and our country will hold firm. We will show our spirit and dignity, and by a quiet and true strength that there is in the British people - that our values will long outlast theirs. We will not be terrorised"
- July 7th 2005 London Bombings.
(Daily Mirror Reverse Page - previous post, July 8th 2005)
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- July 7th 2005 London Bombings.
(Daily Mirror Reverse Page - previous post, July 8th 2005)
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" I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call.... I have been very lucky and very blessed. This country is a blessed nation. The British are special, the world knows it, in our innermost thoughts, we know it. This is the greatest nation on Earth. It has been an honour to serve it."
- 10th May 2007 Announcing Resignation.
- 10th May 2007 Announcing Resignation.
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