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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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• Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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• And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

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• You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

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• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction – chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability – that threat is real.

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

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• I would’ve loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn’t good enough.

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• I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.

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Tony Blair (75)

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

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