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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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The free enterprise system has not failed the financial system has failed.
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...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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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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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
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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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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'
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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
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