Quotes By Tony Blair

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

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.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

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.

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

Be a doer and not a critic.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

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.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

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

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.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

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.