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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
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.
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My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
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People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.
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We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...
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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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There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
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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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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
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We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.
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I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.
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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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The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
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How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.
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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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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
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The British people are the boss.
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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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