Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Tony Blair

Because

Atheist

She

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

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

" By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

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

Tony Blair

War

Think

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

Tony Blair

Country

I Am

" 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. "

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

" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "

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

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

" You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. "

" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

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

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

" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

Tony Blair

Critic

Doer

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "