Tony Blair Quotes
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
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We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.
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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.
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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
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I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.
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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.
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No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
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What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.
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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
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So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.