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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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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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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
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We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.
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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
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There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.
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The British people are the boss.
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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.
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The free enterprise system has not failed the financial system has failed.
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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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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
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There should not be a party within a party.
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Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
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In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
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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.
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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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Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.
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