Quotes by Tony Blair

About Tony Blair:

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He now runs a consultancy business and performs charitable work. Blair was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Blair led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats, the most the party has ever held. The party went on to win two more elections under his leadership: in 2001, in which it won another landslide victory, and in 2005, with a reduced majority.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, l...

Tony Blair

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Tony Blair

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Tony Blair

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.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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.

Tony Blair

Be a doer and not a critic.

Tony Blair

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

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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.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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.

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.

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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.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

Author Bio

  • NameTony Blair
  • DescriptionBritish politician
  • AliasesAnthony Charles Lynton Blair
  • BornMay 6, 1953
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Diplomat; Autobiographer
  • AwardsCharlemagne Prize; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Philadelphia Liberty Medal; Thomas J. Dodd Prize In International Justice And Human Rights