Tony Blair Quotes
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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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You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
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The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
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I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.
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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.
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Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.
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We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
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I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.
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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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Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
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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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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
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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.
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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
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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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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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I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.
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Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.