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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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For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.
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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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The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
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I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.
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The free enterprise system has not failed the financial system has failed.
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Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.
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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
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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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I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.
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I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.
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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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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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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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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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We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
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The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.
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As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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