On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Related Let (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either, ROBERT MUGABE [Rhys-Jones was recorded calling Prime Minister Tony Blair] President Blair ... number one on the to... CAMILLA BOWLES [Rhys-Jones was recorded calling Prime Minister Tony Blair] President Blair ... number one on the to... CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES The IOC knows that (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair had written to IOC members to offer to meet t... BERTRAND DELANOE [After Clinton's afternoon calls to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Schroeder, the official sa... SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Both the Prime Minister [Tony Blair] and President Bush have committed themselves to a vital role in... JACK STRAW This is not a suggestion of immunity [request] filed on behalf of the prime minister of Canada or th... DANIEL SHEA [British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who in 1997 mourned the death of the] People's Princess ... deli... PRINCESS DIANA For the first time perhaps since (1979 to 1990 prime minister) Margaret Thatcher we will have at the... CHANNEL FOUR If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarras... WILLIAM HAGUE The suspicion must be that Tony Blair has already decided to advocate an increase in the use of nucl... NORMAN BAKER I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator. MICHAEL SHEEN Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. IAN MCKELLEN Based on recent statements by Tony Blair I would say that there is a move in the direction of volunt... JULIAN MORRIS History will certainly judge Tony Blair on Iraq, but first the British people will judge him on Thur... CHARLES KENNEDY Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and ... LARRY MULLEN, JR. Tony Blair was telling Murdoch what he wanted to hear because he needs Murdoch's support, MARTIN BELL I have great respect for Tony Blair who, like few, has shown that he is a man who dares to stand by ... ANDERS RASMUSSEN I have great respect for Tony Blair who, like few, has shown that he is a man who dares to stand by ... ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good... ELTON JOHN Tony Blair is one of the most significant world leaders of the modern era. He has a remarkable story... SONNY MEHTA He has a great background and he knows what to do. He's new, refreshing and definitely isn't Tony Bl... TONY BLAIR The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense ... ROBIN OAKLEY Who's Tony Blair, did he get his dick sucked?, oh he ain't shit then... EMINEM Tony Blair must continue to implement the agenda on which we were elected. It's only six months, you... GORDON BROWN I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. DORIS LESSING Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort... MARTIN MCGUINNESS For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Par... TIM YEO Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or... MICHAEL ANCRAM What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues. ALISON REYNOLDS They can use the bombings to again push Tony Blair on the issue of Iraq. BOB AYERS We don?t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair?s religious view... ALASTAIR CAMPBELL As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f... NIGEL HAMILTON I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of To... CHARLES DANCE Prime Minister Blair has indicated an interest in discussing the matter of the development of Islam ... YUSRIL IHZA MAHENDRA When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it ... RORY BREMNER Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; t... GEORGE GALLOWAY Tony Blair -- perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation -- told me yesterday that he was in Delhi... GLOBAL INITIATIVE John Kerry says we didn't have any allies in this war.ÊWhat's he say to Tony Blair?ÊWhat's he say ... GEORGE W. BUSH People who want to vote against Tony Blair for a variety of reasons can and should vote Liberal Demo... BRIAN SEDGEMORE [A voice coach and a linguistics expert had interesting things to say, but, really, this was a good ... BRIAN SEWELL When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air... RORY BREMNER Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush beca... NOEL GALLAGHER My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But ... MARTIN JACQUES It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full t... PETER MANDELSON [Rachel, in particular,] was wise beyond her years, ... I think that if Rachel had been raised in No... JON RONSON The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. TONY BLAIR All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Brita... JOSE MANUEL BARROSO I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul... ROGER WATERS I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted suppor... SIMON HOGGART The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education w... DAVID BAILEY I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor... GERHARD SCHRODER I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom... GEORGE GALLOWAY I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul... ROGER WATERS He was a beloved coach, teacher and friend; some of the students were in a state of shock. Yes, Y.C.... BOB JENKINS Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has gr... PAUL CONROY Tony Blair has been
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Damascus experi... KRODHA VAKISHWARI It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the ... ROBERT JACKSON Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama... PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of... ROBERT MUGABE There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes... JOHN PRESCOTT Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no mora... DANA ALLIN The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President ... NAJI SABRI My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly ... YANIS VAROUFAKIS Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as w... HAROLD PINTER Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention ... STOCKWELL DAY Tony is an all-day tough kid. We have a lot of confidence in him to get out of those tough situation... JARED VOSS I would be very surprised if it was true. I was with British Environment Minister Margaret Beckett j... STEPHANE DION After almost nine years as prime minister, Blair has begun losing touch with reality, ANDREY GROMYKO Moreover, one cannot escape the thought that the risks taken by Londoners have increased as a result... STEPHEN GLOVER If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL Tony Blair probably felt that action on greenhouse gases was an open and shut case when, early in 20... IAIN MURRAY Bush isn't going to follow the detail to the same extent (as Clinton), but he is helping to put his ... ROBIN OAKLEY I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor... GERHARD SCHROEDER I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he... YITZHAK RABIN I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the... CLARE SHORT President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on... JAMIE DRUMMOND Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister,... ANTHONY KING Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect th... SPIKE LEE I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone el... WILL TUDOR Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengt... NICK CLEGG I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough,... WHITNEY CUMMINGS The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister ... ENRICO LETTA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state ... WINSTON CHURCHILL Duncan asked me a question he probably shouldn't have asked, ... It's a question Tony should have as... RICK WHITE It's a myth for our times, ... You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic -- that's Tony Blair! ... ALFONSO CUARON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo... RICHARD DAWKINS I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer ... NAVEEN ANDREWS I can make Tony Blair, Michael Howard, Charles Kennedy or anyone else look bumbling, irrelevant, tet... ANDREW MARR Ninety-five percent of the economists on the continent were with Blair. There is an economic justifi... DANIEL GROS I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had... SHELDON LEE GLASHOW I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever... CAROL ALT Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred ... DAVID CHASE His work was path-breaking when published, and each became a seminal work in the area, by which I me... KATE STITH There are 400 million humans in the U.S. and U.K. and yet, two little worms, George W. Bush and Tony... BOBBY W. MILLER Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite w... LUKE HARDING
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