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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
Autobiographer
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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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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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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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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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
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There should not be a party within a party.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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Enough of talking: It is time now to do.
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Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
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I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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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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We have no plans to increase tax at all.
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland
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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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You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
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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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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
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We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
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