The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.
Tony BlairI'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
Tony BlairI may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
Tony BlairIf we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
Tony Blair