Tony Blair Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.
-
Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
-
I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.
-
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.
-
There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.
-
Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree
-
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
-
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?
-
The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.
-
Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
-
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
-
They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
-
If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
-
The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.
-
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
-
When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
-
Look, I am very competitive.
-
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
-
Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.
-
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
-
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.