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" Education is the best economic policy there is. "
Tony Blair
Policy
Best
Economic
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" 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. "
Tony Blair
Divide
Humanity
Liberty
" My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. "
Tony Blair
Win
View
Perspective
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Up
Trying
Life
" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "
Tony Blair
Real
Nuclear Weapons
Destruction
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Together
Religion
Peace
" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "
Tony Blair
Defeat
Choice
Understanding
" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "
Tony Blair
Am
Country
I Am
" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "
Tony Blair
People
Party
Believe
" I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. "
Tony Blair
Responsibility
Journey
Leader
" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "
Tony Blair
Real
Reality
Values
" My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. "
Tony Blair
Faith
World
Work
" Look, I am very competitive. "
Tony Blair
Am
Very
Look
" 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.' "
Tony Blair
Mind
Technology
Science
" Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. "
Tony Blair
Better
Lose
Do The Right Thing
" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "
Tony Blair
Person
Find
Survival
" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "
Tony Blair
Understand
Party
Adore
" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "
Tony Blair
Free
Battle
America
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Tough
You
Mean
" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "
Tony Blair
Long
Live
Defines
" 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. "
Tony Blair
People
Choice
Feel
" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "
Tony Blair
Only
You
Life
" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "
Tony Blair
Know
Think
Care
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Now
Conflict
Community
" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "
Tony Blair
Talk
You
Experience
" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "
Tony Blair
Tweet
Myself
Office
" 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. "
Tony Blair
Confidence
Insecurity
Fall
" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "
Tony Blair
Public Service
People
Say
" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "
Tony Blair
I Believe
Believe
Right
" Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. "
Tony Blair
Today
Like
New
" The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. "
Tony Blair
Freedom
Spread
Best