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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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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
Autobiographer
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
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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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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 British people are the boss.
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