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 yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experie...

Tony Blair

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.

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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

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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.

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

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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

Tony Blair

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

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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

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

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Tony Blair

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.

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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.

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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