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Shimon Peres lived up to Tony Blair's billing as master of the sound bite when the Israeli President delivered the opening remarks at a panel on the future of the Middle East today.

"I've just come from a discussion about [how] the world needs a conductor," he said. "I'm not sure. I think the world needs a composer, because conducting is about the past, composing is about the future."

Blair too proceeded to show how he'd earned his reputation for quotable quotes. Prior to taking the stage, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had told him that both her parents were arrested by British authorities during the British mandate of Palestine before Israel was established in 1948. Quipped Blair: "That's the thing about being a British prime minister--you go around the world apologizing to people."

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