Tony Blair Quotes
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I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.
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I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
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There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
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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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She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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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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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.
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The British people are the boss.
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
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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 learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
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It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
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I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.
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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
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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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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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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.