Tony Blair Quotes
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Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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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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Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
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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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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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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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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
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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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The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.
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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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I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.
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What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
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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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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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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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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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The British people are the boss.
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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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I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.