Tony Blair Quotes
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I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.
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You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
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I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.
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Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.
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Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
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I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
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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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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
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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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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
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What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
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We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.