"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.“

-Tony Blair

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"The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically."

-Tony Blair

"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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"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."

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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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"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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"My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism."

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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."

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