E.K. Blair Quotes

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

Education, education, education

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

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.

There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

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.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

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

The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.