Explore Quotes by Tony Blair

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

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

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

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.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

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

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

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.

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.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

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.

Be a doer and not a critic.

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

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.