Tony Blair Quotes
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
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There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
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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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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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The class war is over.
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You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.
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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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I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.
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I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.
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I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.
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There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?
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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
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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 people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
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Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.