Tony Blair Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

  Tony Blair

  Community, Problem, Economics

• At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

  Tony Blair

  Struggle, Heart, Responsibility

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

• There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Community

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

• 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, Accepting

• If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

  Tony Blair

  People, Support, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Iraq, People

  "Blair's speech" by Andrew Sparrow, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2004.

• Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

  Tony Blair

  Community, Doctrine, Today

  "Doctrine of the International Community". Tony Blair's speech before the Chicago Economic Club, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. April 24, 1999.

• You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

  Tony Blair

  Home, Interesting, Community

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

• If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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