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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All of us are trying to manage the consequences of change,
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Everybody is concerned about what is happening, ... You should never be complacent about these things.
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As China-EU trade increases, there will be disagreement from time to time, such as the textile trade dispute, ... What we should do is to resolve the problem to increase the bilateral trade.
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put their cross on their ballot paper for continued economic stability in the coming years and to put schools and hospitals first.
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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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That's more than I deserve -- and more than I'm used to, quite frankly,
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The circumstances of our national security have now self-evidently changed,
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I endorse entirely his (Chirac's) congratulation ... It is well deserved and very important, and shows the significance that is attached to the work that agency does.
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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If they pull out it would be catastrophic for the people of Iraq and the cause of democracy and it would be a win for terrorists,
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Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't...
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Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.
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I can announce today that I am inviting leading Palestinians to come to Britain in January to a conference along with members of the quartet and other countries from the region closely involved in supporting the reform efforts. It will discuss progress on reform and look at how the international community can help.
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I refute any suggestion we misled Parliament or the country totally,