Tony Blair Quotes
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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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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
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The British people are the boss.
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I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.
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When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.
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Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.
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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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I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.
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People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
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I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.
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We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
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There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
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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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At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
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People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
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It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.