Tony Blair Quotes

My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.

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• Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Science
  • Cancer

• Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Legacy
  • Economics

• 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.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Children
  • War
  • Possibility

• Education is the best economic policy there is.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Economic
  • Policy

• I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Enterprise

• Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Waiting
  • Destruction
  • Absence

• My teachers used to call me a failure

  

  Tony Blair
  • Failure
  • Teacher

• Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Party
  • Government
  • Principles

• It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Ambition
  • Burning
  • Beckham

• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Challenges
  • Economics
  • Remains

• People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • War
  • September

• Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Choices
  • Wealth
  • Prosperity

• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Accepting
  • Clear
  • Months

• All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Evidence
  • Europe
  • Taxes

• You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Wife
  • Sanity

• What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Order
  • Pay
  • Half

• Be a doer and not a critic.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Critics
  • Doers

• Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

  

  Tony Blair
  • Moral
  • Causes
  • Terror

• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Community
  • Accepting
  • Conflict

• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • History
  • Evil

• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Together
  • Team

• I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Evidence
  • Destruction
  • Weapons