Tony Blair Quotes
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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
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The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.
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The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
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If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
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The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.
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All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland
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I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
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There should not be a party within a party.
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If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
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If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.
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I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.
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The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
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Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.
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In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.
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Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.
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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
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We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.