Tony Blair Quotes

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

Everyone, Act, Community

Education is the best economic policy there is.
Tony Blair

Education, Best, Economic

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

Human, Progress, Cynics

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony Blair

Change, Politics, Country

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

Live, Long, Defines

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
Tony Blair

Person, May, Find

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

Religion, Politics, Time

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

Power, Choice, Surrender

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

Good, Enough, Loved

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Tony Blair

Life, Decision, Trying

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

War, After, Days

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
Tony Blair

Boss, Call, Street

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

Life, Politics, Easy

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

Time, History, Future

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

Today, Law, Tough

Look, I am very competitive.
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

Family, Dad, She

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

Faith, Work, Respect

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

Business, Strong, Win

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

Sleep, Wife, Her

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
Tony Blair

Today, Order, Danger

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

Stand, Party, Labour

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

Power, Government, Party

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
Tony Blair

After, Actually, Left

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

Great, Stand, Knows

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Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: May 6, 1953

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