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Quotes by Tony Blair

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
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
– Tony Blair
I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
– Tony Blair
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
– Tony Blair
I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
– Tony Blair
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
– Tony Blair
I obviously need to get to the gym.
– Tony Blair
If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.
– Tony Blair
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
– Tony Blair
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
– Tony Blair
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.
– Tony Blair
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
– Tony Blair
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
– Tony Blair
The City whizz-kids, with salaries only fractionally less than their greed, now seem not only morally dubious, but incompetent.
– Tony Blair
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
– Tony Blair
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
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
– Tony Blair
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
– Tony Blair
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
– Tony Blair
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
– Tony Blair
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.
– Tony Blair
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
– Tony Blair
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
– Tony Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
– Tony Blair
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
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
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
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
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.
– Tony Blair
In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
– Tony Blair
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
– Tony Blair
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.
– Tony Blair
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.
– Tony Blair
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
– Tony Blair
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
– Tony Blair
Education is the best economic policy there is.
– Tony Blair
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
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.
– Tony Blair