I haven’t got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
TONY BLAIRI haven’t got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
TONY BLAIRThere are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.
TONY BLAIRI want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
TONY BLAIRYou 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 BLAIRThe big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.
TONY BLAIRSociety works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
TONY BLAIRI’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.
TONY BLAIRThe class war is over.
TONY BLAIRThe spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
TONY BLAIRNow you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it – but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
TONY BLAIRThere has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can’t be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
TONY BLAIRI can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
TONY BLAIRWe are going to expand enormously — our economy, our consumption, over the years to come … But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
TONY BLAIRYour loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
TONY BLAIRThe view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
TONY BLAIRBut 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