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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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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
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For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.
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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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It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
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One thing I'm not sure of - and it's a very open question - is whether the type of politics that I represent really has had its day or not. Now I obviously believe passionately it hasn't, that it's still the answer and not the problem, and, you know, the evidence points both ways.
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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
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One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.
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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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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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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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As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
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There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.
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Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.
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