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“Io sono un Socialista, il Socialismo corrisponde più da vicino ad un'esistenza razionale e morale. Sta per co-operazione, per l'amicizia, non per la paura. Crede nell'uguaglianza, non perché vuole che le persone siano identiche, ma perché solamente tramite l'uguaglianza sociale la situazione economica di ciascuno può migliorare.”

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“La fede "corregge", in modo necessario e vitale, la tendenza dell'umanità al "relativismo."”

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“Nella vita si ha bisogno solo di due cose : della salute e della propria moglie.”

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“[…] l'Italia è un paese potenzialmente a rischio di populismo. E il M5s è un pericolo.”

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“[Su Giulio Tremonti] È il ministro europeo più colto che abbiamo.”

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Origine: Citato in Tony Blair: «Giulio? È il più colto» https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/gennaio/09/Tony_Blair_Giulio_piu_colto_co_9_090109077.shtml, Corriere della Sera, 9 gennaio 2009.

“È vero che talvolta la mia testa pensa in modo conservatore, specialmente riguardo l'economia e la sicurezza, ma il cuore batte sempre per il progressismo, e l'anima è e sarà sempre quella del ribelle.”

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Frasi sulla vita di Tony Blair

“In quest'epoca la conoscenza religiosa sia vitale per l'armonia internazionale.”

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“Un disabile, quando contrasta l'eutanasia, adotta un argomento laico o religioso riferendosi al valore di ogni vita umana?”

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“Questo terrorismo di massa è la nuova minaccia nel nostro mondo oggi. È perpetrato da fanatici che sono improvvisamente indifferenti alla sacralità della vita umana, e sta alle democrazie di questo mondo il dovere di unirsi e di lottare insieme contro il terrorismo per sradicarlo completamente dalla nostra terra.”

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Frasi sulla fede di Tony Blair

“Quando qualcuno si proclama ateo, il Dio in cui dice di non credere forse non ha niente a che fare con quello in cui crede una matura fede cattolica.”

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“Dialogare dimostrerebbe pure che, come Benedetto XVI ha fatto forse meglio di chiunque altro, ragione e fede sono profondamente a fianco l'una dell'altra.”

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“La fede è un credere "vivo", non fermo in un'epoca nella storia, ma che si muove col tempo, con la ragione, migliorata dalle scoperte scientifiche e tecnologiche, non in "antitesi" ad esse, e dirige tali scoperte verso fini umani.”

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“La fede risponde al desiderio umano più fondamentale, irresistibile, "irreprimibile" di fare del bene, di migliorarsi, di pensare e agire oltre i limiti degli egoismi umani.”

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“[Dopo la morte del calciatore] Tutti noi sappiamo che George Best è stato probabilmente il più dotato dei calciatori della sua generazione, uno dei più grandi calciatori che il Regno Unito abbia mai prodotto.”

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Origine: Citato in È morto il calciatore George Best http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Sport/2005/11_Novembre/25/best.html, Corriere.it, 11 novembre 2005.

“La storia della Chiesa mostra che essa crea una cornice in cui è possibile amare in maniera "esagerata" ed essere esempi eccezionali di misericordia, sacrificando se stessi.”

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“I santi, infatti, hanno mostrato che la religione rende possibile il rischio di vivere ai margini e fare in modo che la speranza sia la sola sicurezza.”

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“Credere, soprattutto, permette di perdonare.”

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“Ho avuto la possibilità di coltivare una passione più grande della politica: la religione.”

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“La divisione tra ragionamenti laici e religiosi è molto meno ampia di quanto presumiamo.”

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“Sono d'accordo che non devi essere religioso per essere buono – è vero –, ma non si può separare la religione dall'idea di fare del bene, una verità del tutto diversa dalla prima.”

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“Attualmente, il Partito Laburista è il partito della legge e dell'ordine in Gran Bretagna. Duro col crimine, duro con le cause del crimine.”

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“Il regime di Saddam Hussein è spregevole, lui sta cercando di sviluppare delle armi di distruzione di massa, e noi non possiamo lasciarlo agire in un modo così incontrollato. Lui è una minaccia per il suo stesso popolo e per la regione e, se gli è permesso sviluppare queste armi, sarebbe una minaccia anche per noi.”

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“Il potere senza principi è sterile, ma i principi senza potere sono inutili. Questo è un partito di governo, e lo guiderò come un partito di governo.”

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“Io non sono entrato in politica per cambiare il Labour Party. Io sono entrato in politica per cambiare il paese.”

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“La minaccia di Saddam Hussein e delle armi di distruzione di massa – chimiche, biologiche, probabilmente nucleari – ebbene, quella minaccia è reale.”

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“L'arte del comando sta nel dire di no, perché è molto facile dire di sì.”

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“Non c'è incontro di mentalità, tentativo di comprensione con questo terrore. Solo una scelta: Sconfiggerlo o essere sconfitti da esso. E noi dobbiamo sconfiggerlo.”

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“Non è un governo arrogante quello che sceglie delle priorità, è irresponsabile quello che non riesce a sceglierle.”

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“Per quanto disprezzi l'idea dell'aborto, non dobbiamo criminalizzare una donna che, in circostanze particolarmente difficili, prenda questa decisione.”

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“Posso andare solo in una direzione. Non possiedo una marcia indietro.”

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“Questa non è una battaglia tra gli Stati Uniti d'America ed il terrorismo, ma tra il mondo libero e democratico ed il terrorismo.”

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“Se c'è una cosa che la Gran Bretagna dovrebbe imparare dagli ultimi 50 anni, è questa: L'Europa può solo diventare più importante per noi.”

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“Dubito che un cameriere polacco in meno a Londra creerebbe un posto di lavoro in più per un operaio disoccupato nel nord dell'Inghilterra.”

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“[…] la globalizzazione è un evento determinato da tecnologia e immigrazione, non dai governi. Se governassi oggi continuerei a dire che bisogna accettarla e prepararsi alle sue conseguenze: non fermarla. Compito dei progressisti è mostrare alla gente che ne comprendiamo l'ansia di fronte ai sempre più rapidi cambiamenti mondiali e aiutarla ad affrontarli: non cercare rifugio in protezionismo e nazionalismo, che non funzionano.”

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“Se la sinistra non si modernizza di continuo, è condannata a perdere. Questa era l'idea del New Labour nel '97 ed è ancora più rilevante perché da allora il progresso tecnologico ha enormemente accelerato. Se la sinistra dà l'impressione di essere una forza conservatrice, anti-business e isolazionista, non funziona. Deve emanare ottimismo e dimostrare che il futuro contiene speranze per tutti. Sinistra e destra significano ancora qualcosa, ma occorre aggiungere un'altra dimensione al confronto: quella tra "apertura" e "chiusura", tra l'apertura a commerci e immigrazione e la chiusura dei commerci e delle frontiere.”

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“Lo spirito ottimistico, tollerante e multiculturale della Cool Britannia non è scomparso, ma ora si confronta con uno spirito diverso: l'umore negativo che ha prevalso nel referendum sulla Brexit.”

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“[Rispondendo alla domanda: "Crede ancora nell'Unione Europea?"] Le ragioni per l'esistenza dell'Europa unita sono ancora più forti che in passato. Certo, la Ue ha bisogno di riforme. Ma chi crede nella sua disintegrazione è un illuso. Nel mondo globalizzato contano le dimensioni e l'unico modo di competere con giganti come Cina e India, per le nazioni europee, è stare insieme. Personalmente, non perdo la speranza che la Gran Bretagna possa tornare a farne parte. Il dibattito sulla Brexit è lontano dall'essere concluso.”

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“Immaginiamo che situazione avremmo oggi, con il risorgere del nazionalismo russo, se l'Europa orientale non facesse parte della Ue.”

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Tony Blair: Frasi in inglese

“I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them – or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.”

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[Stryker Mcguire, I Did It My Way, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202843/site/newsweek/, Newsweek International, 2007-02-26, 2007-02-20]
2000s

“The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values.”

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" Prime Minister Blair's speech http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/international/europe/17text-blair.html?ex=1174104000&en=fc0f4a2452f34103&ei=5070", New York Times, 16 July 2005. Speech to the Labour Party National Policy Forum. 2000s

“My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway and I will not allow it to wait for you.”

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David McKittrick, "Blair offers a fresh start for Irish peace", The Independent, 17 May 1997, p. 1.
Speech at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show, 16 May 1997.
1990s

“We do, as a new Government, have to be extremely careful after 18 years in opposition. A lot of people who worked for us, they then go on and work for the lobby firms. I think we have to be very careful with people fluttering around the new Government, trying to make all sorts of claims of influence, that we are purer than pure, that people understand that we will not have any truck with anything that is improper in any shape or form at all.”

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David Hughes, "'Don't flutter around us' Blair warns lobbyists", Daily Mail, 8 July 1998, p. 2.
After a scandal about lobbying and access; this statement is often misremembered as "whiter than white".
1990s

“The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.”

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Address to the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported by David Adam, "Blair signals shift over climate change", http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/nov/02/greenpolitics.frontpagenews The Guardian, 1 November 2005. 2000s

“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself… just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!”

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Origine: On BBC Question Time's election special programme, 28 April, 2005.

“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”

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Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302. 9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day. 2000s

“As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.”

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Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030604/debtext/30604-06.htm, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 406, col. 161. Replying to questions following statement on the G8 summit, House of Commons, 4 June 2003. 2000s

“Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education. We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform.”

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"We are back as the people's party, says Blair", The Times, 2 October 1996.
1990s

“There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.”

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Cahal Milmo, " Blair reveals an unexpected influence: Trotsky http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-reveals-an-unexpected-influence-trotsky-468385.html", The Independent, 3 March 2006. Speech to the Commonwealth Club, London, 2 March 2006. 2000s

“Powers that are constitutionally there can be used but the Scottish Labour Party is not planning to raise income tax and once the power is given it is like any parish council: it's got the right to exercise it.”

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The Scotsman, 4 April 1997.
Asked whether he would intervene to prevent the Scottish Parliament from raising taxes.
1990s

“I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.”

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BBC Newsnight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/1988874.stm Interview with Jeremy Paxman, 16 May 2002. 2000s

“I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that this debate is not best conducted in the pages of the Mail on Sunday.”

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Michael White, "I will go in my own time – Blair", The Guardian, 12 May 2005, p. 2.
Speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party, 11 May 2005; the 'leadership' referred to was that of his successor, who was widely assumed to be Gordon Brown.
2000s

“We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years– contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence– Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.”

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Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030318/debtext/30318-06.htm, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 301, col. 762. House of Commons debate on Iraq, 18 March 2003. 2000s

“Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.”

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Speech to the Labour conference in Blackpool, 2 October 2002. Perhaps echoes an old latin proverb, Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, be prepared for war).
2000s

“It has been an unrelenting, but, I have to accept, at least partly successful campaign to persuade Britain that Europe is a conspiracy aimed at us, rather than a partnership designed for us and others to pursue our national interest properly in a modern, interdependent world. It is right to confront this campaign head on. Provided that the treaty embodies the essential British positions, we shall agree to it as a Government. Once agreed – either at the June Council, which is our preference, or subsequently – Parliament should debate it in detail and decide upon it. Then, let the people have the final say.”

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Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040420/debtext/40420-06.htm#40420-06_spmin0, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 420, col. 157. House of Commons Statement on the publication White Paper on Europe, 20 April 2004. 2000s

“It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.”

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Trevor Kavanagh, "We shall prevail .. terrorists shall not", The Sun, 8 July 2005, p. 18
7 July 2005, statement from Scotland's Gleneagles Hotel, in response to the terrorist attack on the London Underground.
2000s

“The intelligence is clear: [Saddam Hussein] continues to believe that his weapons of mass destruction programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. It is essential to his regional power. Prior to the inspectors coming back in, he was engaged in a systematic exercise in concealment of those weapons.”

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Hansard http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030225/debtext/30225-05.htm#30225-05_head0, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 400, col. 123. House of Commons statement on Iraq, 25 February 2003. 2000s

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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Mail on Sunday, 2 October 1994.
1990s

“Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.”

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ibid.
1990s

“The battles of this century … are less likely to be the product of extreme political ideology—like those of the 20th century—but they could easily be fought around the questions of cultural or religious difference.”

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As attributed without citation in Awake! magazine (anonymous), January 2015 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201501/watching-the-world-religion/ 2010s

“Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again… This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.”

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[Martin Hodgson, Blair accuses Iran of fuelling 'deadly ideology' of militant Islam, http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2195043,00.html, The Guardian, 2007-10-19, 2007-10-19]
2000s

“To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country.”

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Prime Minister's monthly press conference May 2006 http://web.archive.org/20061001142642/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page9400.asp, Prime Minister's website. 8 May 2006, refusing to set a date for his retirement. 2000s

“Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.”

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Prime Minister's monthly press conference, April 2003 http://web.archive.org/20030511155256/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page3535.asp, Prime Minister's website. 28 April 2003. 2000s

“Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.”

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"Mr Blair opts out", Guardian, 2 December 1994. Statement on 1 December 1994, defending his decision to send his eldest son Euan to the London Oratory School which had opted out of local education authority control under a policy which the Labour Party opposed.
1990s

“Tony Blair: Has the Prime Minister secured even the minimal guarantee from the Euro-rebels that, on a future vote of confidence on Europe, they will support him?
John Major: I can sense the concern in the right hon. Gentleman's voice. Perhaps he would like to tell me whether he has received the support of the 50 MPs who defied his Front Bench over Maastricht; of the 40 who defied him over European finance; on a single currency, where the right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) was in dispute with the deputy leader of the Labour party; and on clause IV, which half his, I think he called them, infantile MEPs want to keep. He does not, and his deputy leader does one day and does not the next. These are party matters. Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what his position is?
Tony Blair: There is one very big difference—I lead my party, he follows his.”

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Hansard http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-04-25/Orals-2.html, House of Commons 6th series, vol. 258, cols. 655-6. Prime Minister's Question Time, 25 April 1995. 1990s

“She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.”

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Frank Millar, "Shocked Britain mourns loss of Princess Diana in Paris car crash", Irish Times, 1 September 1997, p. 1.
Statement on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 31 August 1997.
1990s

“A New Britain where the extraordinary talent of the British people is liberated from the forces of conservatism that so long have held them back, to create a model 21st century nation, based not on privilege, class or background, but on the equal worth of all.”

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Tony Blair's speech in full http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/460009.stm, BBC News online Speech to the Labour Party conference, 28 September 1999. 1990s

“This is the time not just for this Government– or, indeed, for this Prime Minister—but for this House to give a lead: to show that we will stand up for what we know to be right; to show that we will confront the tyrannies and dictatorships and terrorists who put our way of life at risk; to show, at the moment of decision, that we have the courage to do the right thing.”

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Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030318/debtext/30318-09.htm#30318-09_spmin2, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 301, cols. 773-774. Conclusion of speech in the House of Commons debate on Iraq, 18 March 2003. 2000s

“We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.”

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Peter Beaumont, " PM admits graves claim 'untrue' http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1263830,00.html", The Observer, 18 July, 2004. Statement reported in "Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves" produced by USAID, dated 20 November, 2003. 2000s