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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The government decision was taken on grounds of safety and nonproliferation,
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The Orange Order by their decision have opted for hope, ... taken a significant step.
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Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, ... The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.
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I know there's a lot of disagreement in the country about the wisdom of my decision to order the action,
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There was no real disagreement as to subsistence, ... It was essential that the treaty be upheld in full, that there was no question whatever of going against any provision of the treaty, and in particular that Mr. Duisenberg having made it clear that he did not desire to serve the full term of eight years, that the decision as to when he goes is his and his decision alone.
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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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We have to be vigilant and get out and get after them and make sure we deal with this issue,
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We have seen what the so-called new evidence is and we think we can answer every point,
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This was an absolutely fundamental charge, ... This was an allegation that we had behaved in a way which ... if true would have merited my resignation.
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When people look back on this time and look back on this conflict, I honestly believe they will see this as one of the defining moments of our century. And you did it,
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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that what is happening in Iraq now is crucial for our own security, ... Never mind the security of Iraq or the greater Middle East. It is crucial for the security of the world.
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Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days? ... Surely it's wrong ... surely you are going to have to back down.
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Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,
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What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,