E.K. Blair Quotes

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

Look, I am very competitive.

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

I think I made the wrong career choice

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.

The British people are the boss.

We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

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.

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.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

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.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

There should not be a party within a party.

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

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.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

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.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.