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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Africa should no longer beg for debt relief but assert it as a moral and historical right .
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Our aim was to show concern and determination, and boost the crucial task of restoring confidence in the region, ... The message was also intended to show how painful changes can increase strength and stability in the longer term.
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There is no question here of a deal or trade-off. We are working very hard with the Romanian government to stop illegal immigration and to get to a point where visas are no longer necessary,
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The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.
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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race
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Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
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I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
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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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I know that there will be many British families who will have lost friends and relatives and we all express our deep sadness and condolences at this loss. There will be others living with dreadful uncertainty.
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I just want to tell you why I am so passionate about this bid,
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the best chance for peace we will have in this generation.
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The attacks bear all the hallmarks of bin Laden
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That is not something that can have any hiding place in respectable opinion and I think that is a necessary thing for us to say.