Tony Blair Quotes

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

Be a doer and not a critic.

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.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

The class war is over.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.