Tony Blair Quotes

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

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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

• 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

• My teachers used to call me a failure

  

  Tony Blair
  • Failure
  • Teacher

• Education is the best economic policy there is.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Economic
  • Policy

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Waiting
  • Destruction
  • Absence

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Enterprise

• 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

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Leadership

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Ambition
  • Burning
  • Beckham

• 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

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Choices
  • Wealth
  • Prosperity

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Serious
  • Politics

• The fear of missing out means that today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Missing
  • Reputation
  • Dare

• 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
  • Conflict
  • Accepting

• 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

• I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

  

  Tony Blair
  • Ministers

• 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