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Tony Blair Quotes

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

– 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

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

– Tony Blair

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.’

– 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

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

– Tony Blair

I 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 Blair

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

– 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

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

– Tony Blair

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

– Tony Blair

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

– Tony Blair

I learnt a lot in government, and I’ve learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

– Tony Blair

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.

– Tony Blair

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

– Tony Blair

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

– 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

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

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

– 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

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

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

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

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

– Tony Blair

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.

– Tony Blair

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

– 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

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

– Tony Blair

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.

– Tony Blair

Education is the best economic policy there is.

– Tony Blair

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