If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
TONY BLAIRIf there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
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 BLAIRSociety works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
TONY BLAIRThe class war is over.
TONY BLAIRI 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 BLAIRImmigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.
TONY BLAIRThe spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
TONY BLAIRWe fall for… the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that’s always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.
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 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 BLAIRI’m the f***ing Prime Minister!
TONY BLAIRI may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
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 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 BLAIRThe best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can’t be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
TONY BLAIRI can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
TONY BLAIR