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I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

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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 think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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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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Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
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...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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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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