Explore Quotes by Tony Blair

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

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

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

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

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

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.