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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Libya has declared its intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and to limit the range of Libyan missiles to no greater than 300 kilometers, ... that this process will be transparent and verifiable.
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So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.
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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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There is no point in speculating what happens down the line if you reach an impasse. But there is a lot of processes that have to be gone through before you are at that point, not least the Security Council.
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There will always be extremists who seek to disrupt a process such as the peace process in Northern Ireland, ... They must not be allowed to get their way.
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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,