Tony Blair Quotes
"Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Wife, Sleep)
"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."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Government, Power, Party, Will)
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Art, Leadership, Saying)
"The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Destruction, Weapons)
"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
(Related: Defeat, Meeting, Terror, Understanding)
"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."
- Tony Blair
(Related: People, Day)
"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."
- Tony Blair
(Related: War, Possibility, Children, First, May)
"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Cause, Conflict, Religious)
"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."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Time, Leader, People, End, Journey, Responsibility)
"You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Wife, Sanity)
"This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism."
- Tony Blair
(Related: America, Battle, states, Terrorism, United, World)
"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Causes, Crime, Law, Order, Party, Today)
"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Government, Priorities)
"I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough."
- Tony Blair
"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Survival, May)
"I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Country, Today)
"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Change, Politics, Country, Party)
"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Government, War, Circumstances, Parliament, Support)
"I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear."
- 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
(Related: Idea, Abortion, Choice, Circumstances, Woman)
"Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Act, Community, Conflict, Now, Will)
"In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'."
- Tony Blair