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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I ... appeal to you and all your colleagues to do everything possible to avoid tension and violence.
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It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010, ... There is an enormous amount at stake... Failure to make progress could even be fatal for the trade round.
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We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whether it will be possible in the future to bring people back into consensus together. Can we do that? I don't know, but it's important that we at least begin a process of dialogue that allows us to make progress on this.
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That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.
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It is clear that the diplomatic solution alone will not work, ... We have to send the strongest possible message to Milosevic that we will not tolerate any more of these atrocities.
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We will never have a better chance (of peace) this generation, of that I have absolutely no doubt,
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We in Europe have a real opportunity to show that...we are not fair-weather friends, who turn away at the first sign of difficulty.
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We are two countries that have undergone a lot of change,
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These sentiments are completely and totally unacceptable, ... I felt a real sense of revulsion at those remarks.
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The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,
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The strategy and timing are proceeding according to plan,
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The timescale (for withdrawal) is when the job is done,
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I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time.
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I somehow feel we're not being entirely persuasive in certain quarters,