Tony Blair Quotes
- All Quotes
-
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.
-
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.
-
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
-
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
-
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.
-
I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
-
I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.
-
I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.
-
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
-
If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.
-
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.
-
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
-
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.
-
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.
-
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.
-
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
-
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community
-
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.
-
Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.
-
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
-
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.