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Tony Blair Quotes

English - Statesman | May 6, 1953 -

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Power Choice Surrender Say Your

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

Live World Long New Interdependence

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.

Today Memories Peace War Cold Over

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.

Confidence Together People Insecurity

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.

Purpose Consequences Terrorism Out

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.

I Am Challenges World Defeated Will

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Think Care Feel Know Misunderstood

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Great Stand Advantage Knows No-One

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Words Wealth Choice Dependent Those

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Freedom Best Free Security Spread

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Today World New Now Order Spread

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

People End Lead In The End Deliver

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