Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair
Theresa Cara Blair CBE QC, known as Cherie Blair or professionally as Cherie Booth, is a British barrister and lecturer. She is married to the former prime minister, Tony Blair...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth23 September 1954
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Men are never brave, are they?
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As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.
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My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.
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I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
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Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.
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I am really lucky with my skin. It comes from my mum. Fashion tip from Cherie: drink lots of water.
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I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.
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The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
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When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!
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As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.
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Do I have any advice for someone new to No. 10? Never open the door in your nightie. And that everybody has to adjust to it in a way that's right for their family.
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I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.
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I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.