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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Tony Blair

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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...
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I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.
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We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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I am a pretty straight sort of guy.
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The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
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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.
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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
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Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
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It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
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A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.
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