Tony Blair Quotes
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
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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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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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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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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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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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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
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I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.
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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 may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
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The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.
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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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Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it
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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'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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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
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People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.
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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 first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
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Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.
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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.