Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blairis a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Together with then-US President George W. Bush, he initiated the Iraq War with the invasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth6 May 1953
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
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We were never going to be able at this G8 to resolve the disagreement over Kyoto, nor to renegotiate a set of targets for countries in place of the Kyoto Protocol,
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We hope that this move, along with other efforts being made at international level, will help bring about a reduction in oil prices in the very near future.
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We hope that diplomatic efforts will succeed in solving the crisis, but we are not ready to rule out any alternative in this period,
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The accumulation of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq poses a threat, a threat not just to the region but to the wider world, and I think George Bush was absolutely right to raise it.
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I believe agreement can and should be reached at the December council (of EU leaders) and I will make every effort personally to achieve it by then,
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for obvious reasons, the mood now is different.
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I applaud the Indonesian government's determination to defeat the terrorists and I offer our full support to the people of Bali as they recover from another atrocity so soon after the 2002 attack,
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I am not having an affair. You make it sound so cheap, it's not cheap. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm in love, for God's sake.
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I do not accept it was wrong to remove Saddam Hussein.
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The IRA statement yesterday frankly defies any description. It was an extraordinary thing to say.
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The Iraqis have succeeded in drafting this constitution despite the action of terrorists who are trying to destroy the country's desire for a peaceful future,
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The judgment has to be, at the present time, that Saddam Hussein is not cooperating with the inspectors and therefore is in breach of the U.N. resolution. And that's why time is running out.
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I can announce today that I am inviting leading Palestinians to come to Britain in January to a conference along with members of the quartet and other countries from the region closely involved in supporting the reform efforts. It will discuss progress on reform and look at how the international community can help.
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I certainly agree with him (Bush) very strongly that weapons of mass destruction represent a real threat to world stability.