TONY BLAIR QUOTES IV

British Prime Minister (1953- )


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Socialism for me was never about nationalization or the power of the state, not just about economics or even politics. It is a moral purpose to life, a set of values, a belief in society, in co-operation, in achieving together what we cannot achieve alone. It is how I try to live my life, how you try to live yours--the simple truths--I am worth no more than anyone else, I am my brother's keeper, I will not walk by on the other side. We are not simply people set in isolation from one another, face to face with eternity, but members of the same family, same community, same human race. This is my socialism and the irony of all our long years in opposition is that those values are shared by the vast majority of the British people.

TONY BLAIR
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attributed, "Socialism Is So Hot Right Now", Commentary, 17 September 2018


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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good luck.

TONY BLAIR

announcing his impending resignation, Trimdon Labour Club, 10 May 2007


What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

TONY BLAIR

New York Times, 5 September 2003


Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength.

TONY BLAIR

speech to the Labour Party National Policy Forum, 16 July 2005


We became complacent; we became the managers of the status quo, not the change makers, and we've got to renew the center.

TONY BLAIR

interview, Politico, September 25, 2017


The Labour Party is presently marooned on fantasy island. I understand would-be leaders will want to go there and speak the native language in the hope of persuading enough eventually to migrate to the mainland of reality.

TONY BLAIR

New Statesman, December 18, 2019


I think the worry all the time, I think in, not just in Europe but outside, is where does the US stand in this slightly difficult space between America first and America alone.

TONY BLAIR

interview, CNBC, November 5, 2019


Okay, so one thing I've learned over a long period time in politics is not to get mixed up in someone else's politics. I've got enough problems back here at home, so we'll leave all these questions around Ukraine and impeachment to American politics.

TONY BLAIR

interview, CNBC, November 5, 2019


You cannot teach people hate and then ask them to practice peace. But neither can you teach people peace except by according them dignity and granting them hope.

TONY BLAIR

speech to joint session of the U.S. Congress, July 17, 2003


I think the same feelings that gave rise to Brexit gave rise to the election of Donald Trump. In my view, the important thing for those of us from the progressive side of politics is not just to go in head-on opposition to all that, but to try and work out why it happened, and how we meet the anxieties of people without getting into the politics of fear.

TONY BLAIR

interview, Politico, September 25, 2017


There was no way of uniting the country over Brexit. Britain is deeply divided over it. Now that Brexit will happen, we must make the best of it and the country must come together.

TONY BLAIR

New Statesman, December 18, 2019


You know, nowadays, if you step out at all into any area of public controversy, you're going to get a bucket of something unpleasant poured over you, so you just get used to that.

TONY BLAIR

interview, Politico, September 25, 2017


Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

TONY BLAIR

interview, Politico, September 25, 2017


It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.

TONY BLAIR

statement in response to the terrorist attack on the London Underground, 7 July 2005


The threat comes because in another part of our globe there is shadow and darkness, where not all the world is free, where many millions suffer under brutal dictatorship, where a third of our planet lives in a poverty beyond anything even the poorest in our societies can imagine, and where a fanatical strain of religious extremism has arisen, that is a mutation of the true and peaceful faith of Islam. And because in the combination of these afflictions a new and deadly virus has emerged. The virus is terrorism whose intent to inflict destruction is unconstrained by human feeling and whose capacity to inflict it is enlarged by technology.

TONY BLAIR

speech to joint session of the U.S. Congress, July 17, 2003


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.

TONY BLAIR

speech to the Labour Party Conference referring to the fact that no WMDs had been found in Iraq, 28 September 2004


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.

TONY BLAIR

statement on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 31 August 1997


The extraordinary thing is the Labour Party's desire to rewrite its only period of majority government in half a century in negative terms.

TONY BLAIR

New Statesman, December 18, 2019


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

TONY BLAIR

speech in House of Commons, 9 November 2005


For the moment, let me say this: Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

TONY BLAIR

House of Commons statement on discussions with President Bush over the Middle East, 10 April 2002