This is according to British ex-premier Tony Blair said in his memoirs which became an instant bestseller this week.

Politicians had to be extremely controlled to get anywhere, he wrote, adding: "And your free-bird instincts want to spring you from that prison of self-control".

"Then there is the moment of encounter, so exciting, so naughty, so lacking in self-control.

"Suddenly you are transported out of your world of intrigue and issues and endless machinations and the serious piled on the serious, and just put on a remote desert island of pleasure, out of it all, released, carefree," he wrote.

However, Blair who has been married to lawyer Cherie Booth for 30 years with four children, insisted such inclinations were "not an excuse," PA reported.

He also added the old saying that power was an aphrodisiac had to be true: "Let's face it, most politicians are definitely on the debit side of the good-looks ledger," he said.

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Sep 2, 2010

DINI01

its not only politians, its most men who are in high position. Women tends to throw themselves at them, hoping to milk them, and its a pity they can't say no.
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Sep 2, 2010

sefebe

Ke bofebe fela. Sies!! Stop making silly excuses.
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Sep 2, 2010

Gambler

Most women like to be associated with well known people(status) irrespective of the scandals surrounding that particular individual.
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Sep 2, 2010

Sefebe sa Prsident - o kare a ka bolaya ke Aids. Le hlogo ya Mpama!
Nxah - the country is at crisis and all u do is advertising u'r pinipini....Nxah...o a tena maan, sebotho ke wena...hlogo ye kgolo!
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Sep 2, 2010

Gambler

@Sefebe ba tlo shwa ba e tlogela,Ga edlale Aids.
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Sep 2, 2010

MyPeoples

@ sefebe & Kuku. Its not only him everybody in the position of power gets free punani most of the time be it president, businessman, artists etc...leave our president alone... dont hate the player hate the game...T-Bose le ena naja bana (so what)
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Sep 2, 2010

MTT

All politicians ke difebe,it starts from ko campuseng(SRC) until parliament,bajolana too much.
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Sep 2, 2010

tlametlo

@Kuku wa matla le wena, o sefebe le wena
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Sep 2, 2010

@MyPeoples,
I don't care if wena o ja KUKU or whoever BUT just NOT our president. No wonder our country is always on Strike, because he is focusing more on KUKU than anything else.

JUMA ke SEFEBE FEBE, o rata KUKU to come nice.
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Sep 2, 2010

@tlametlo,
Ke tla go tshwarela, and i will pray for u...
Nna ha ke jane le boMadala - he is older than my father so, pls.....
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