Tony Blair Quotes
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I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.
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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.
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The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
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I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.
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Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.
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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.
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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.
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I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
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A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
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When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century
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The class war is over.
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Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
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The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.