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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
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
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The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
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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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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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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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It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
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I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.
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Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.
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Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.
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I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.
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If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.
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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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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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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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Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.
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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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There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
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Enough of talking: It is time now to do.
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