Tony Blair Quotes

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

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.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.