Tony Blair Quotes
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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
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If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.
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There should not be a party within a party.
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My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
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I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
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What we also know is we haven't found them weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.
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Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
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One thing I'm not sure of - and it's a very open question - is whether the type of politics that I represent really has had its day or not. Now I obviously believe passionately it hasn't, that it's still the answer and not the problem, and, you know, the evidence points both ways.
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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
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Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.
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Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.
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There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
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There's a great frustration with the system. There's a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I've got enough problems in my own politics.
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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
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Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.
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Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.
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Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one
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I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
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Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
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A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
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It the intelligence service concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.