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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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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 still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.
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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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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
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Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.
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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 didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
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You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
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Look, I am very competitive.
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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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Politics may be the art of the possible but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
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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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Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.
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Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
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A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
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