Tony Blair Quotes
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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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.
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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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There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.
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Look, I am very competitive.
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
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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?
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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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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.
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Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.
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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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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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You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
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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.
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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
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We have no plans to increase tax at all.
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Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
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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.
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The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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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.
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.