“Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.”

— Tony Blair

Full text of Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3697434.stm, BBC News online
Speech to the Labour Party Conference, 28 September 2004, referring to the fact that no WMDs had been found in Iraq.
2000s

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