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I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

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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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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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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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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
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I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.
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Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
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I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
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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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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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I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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