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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
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can see, look into Austria - you've got a far-right candidate who may become the president because he's in a close-run race.
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
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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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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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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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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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If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
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Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'
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The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.
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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
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We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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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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If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.
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What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.
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Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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