Tony Blair Quotes

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

Leadership, Art, Saying

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.
Tony Blair

Freedom, Democracy, Law

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

Government, Priorities, Choose

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

Win, Sometimes, Wrong

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

Hate, Humanity, Liberty

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.
Tony Blair

History, Evil, Friends

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

Purpose, Lies, Act

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.
Tony Blair

Music, Truth, Rock

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

War, Live, Children

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

Battle, America, Free

Be a doer and not a critic.
Tony Blair

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
Tony Blair

Peace, Religion, Society

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

Woman, Difficult, Makes

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

War, Government, Cannot

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

Today, Country, Else

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

Time, End, Political

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

Politics, Hope, Government

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

End, Leaders, Lead

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

Real, Nuclear, Weapons

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.
Tony Blair

Politics, Time, Another

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

Person, Service, Public

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
Tony Blair

Between, Wonderful, Difference

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

Insecurity, Confidence, Together

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
Tony Blair

Words, Choice, Wealth

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Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: May 6, 1953

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