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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. "

Tony Blair

Future

Time

Moment

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" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

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

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "

Tony Blair

Country

I Am

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

" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "

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

" Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

Tony Blair

Way

Gear

" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "

" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "

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

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

" In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. "

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

" 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

Trying

Life

" It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

Tony Blair

Critic

Doer

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Tony Blair

Myself

Office

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "