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I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
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I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!
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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
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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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I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
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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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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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Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
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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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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
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Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
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The fear of missing out means that today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.
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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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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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I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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