Tony Blair

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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953) was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.

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• "I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear."^[1]

Simple: I can only go one way. I can not go backwards.

What it means: I can not go back and change my decisions.

• "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."^[2]    

Simple: This is the first generation to is able to understand that we can live all of our life and not to go to nor send our children to war.

• "Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education."^[2]   

Simple: The three main things I will focus on if I am prime minister will be education, education, education.

What it means: I will mainly focus on one thing – education.

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