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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

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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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Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
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If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.
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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
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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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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives and the politicians feel misunderstood.
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Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.
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Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.
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We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.
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Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.
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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 would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
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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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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
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I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.
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What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can see, look into Austria - you've got a far-right candidate who may become the president because he's in a close-run race.
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No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
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