Blair Quotes

• I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

  Michael Sheen

  Impersonators

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

  Doris Lessing

  Hated

  "September 11 wasn't that bad, says Nobel winner Lessing" by Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

  Frank Dobson

  Thinking, Years, Leader

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Luck, Proud, Witch

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• Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

  Bianca Jagger

  Media, Hype, Effort

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• Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Jobs, Want

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

  Peter Mandelson

  Government, Ideas, Brilliant

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• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  Ted Rall

  Tradition, Source, Honorable

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• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Lying, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  Harold Pinter

  Smile, Views, Hands

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Zimbabwe, England, Let Me

  "Hands off Zimbabwe, Mugabe tells Blair", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

  Michael Moore

  War, Guy, Idiot

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• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, People, Different

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• Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Iraq, Voting

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• George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

  Bianca Jagger

  Iraq, World, Hussein

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• I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

  Howell Raines

  Land, Mines

  "N.Y. Times names Bill Keller as editor", www.cnn.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

  Bianca Jagger

  Leadership, Principles, Different

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• I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

  Clare Short

  Break Up, Mean, Agreement

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• I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

  Roger Waters

  Israel, Play, Foreign Policy

  "Breaking down the wall" by David Hirsh, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

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• People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

  Bianca Jagger

  Powerful, Ambition, Men

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• When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Writing, Law, Caves

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• Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

  John Hewson

  Party, Thrown

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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