Quotes By Tony Blair

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

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

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.

Look, I am very competitive.

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

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

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.

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.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

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.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

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.

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

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

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.

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.