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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Politician
Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
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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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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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Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
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If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
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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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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
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It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
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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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The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
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I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
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The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.
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We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
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You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
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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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I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.
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