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• My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn’t especially religious.

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• Look, I am very competitive.

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• Leaders lead but in the end it’s the people who deliver.

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• In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

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• In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

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• In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.

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• In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you’re weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

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• I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It’s your choice.

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• I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

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• I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

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• Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.

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• Education is the best economic policy there is.

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• Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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• But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

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• But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

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• But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it’s beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

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• But as I always say to people I’m essentially a public service person.

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• Be a doer and not a critic.

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Tony Blair (75)

Birth:	6th May, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

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