21 Quotes filtered by Tony Blair
I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
After the Ecclestone affair.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
John has some great strengths....such as his left hook.
Tony Blair 05/2001
On John Prescott.
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about), 2001 General Election
Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.
Tony Blair
Category: New Labour
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
Tony Blair
Category: Conservatism
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
Tony Blair 2001
Category: Lifestyle
Jesus Christ, Peter, what a misjudgement.
Tony Blair 2000
Alleged remark of Tony Blair to Peter Mandelson as the row over his house purchase loan from Geoffrey Robinson unfolded.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
Tony Blair 1998
Tony Blair to William Hague
Category: House of Lords
Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
Tony Blair
Category: Clinton Presidency
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
Tony Blair 27/03/2003
Speaking after the bodies of two British soldiers were shown on Arabic television
Category: War on Iraq
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
Tony Blair 2003
Category: European Constitution
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
Category: War on Iraq
I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
Tony Blair 08/07/2003
On weapons of mass destruction.
Category: War on Iraq
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
Tony Blair 18/03/2003
House of Commons speech
Category: War on Iraq
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.
Tony Blair 09/2001
Category: War on Terror
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: Africa
And our job, my nation that watched you grow, that you've fought alongside and now fights alongside you, that takes enormous pride in our alliance and great affection in our common bond, our job is to be there with you. You're not going to be alone. We'll be with you in this fight for liberty.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, 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. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.
Tony Blair 18/07/2003
Speech to US Congress
Category: War on Iraq
Now is not the time for sound-bites. I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder.
Tony Blair
On signing the Anglo Irish Agreement
Category: Northern Ireland
