Quotes by Tony Blair

“For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.”

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

“If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we dont act, and it turns ...”

“Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading s...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's...”

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

“I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at you...”

“Education is the best economic policy there is.”

“Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.”

“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...”

“I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely ...”

“We should be tough on crime and tough on the underlying causes of crime.”

“The news bulletins of the last week have been like hammer blows struck against the sleeping conscience of the country, urging us to wake up and look unflinchingly at what we see... A solution to th...”

“The importance of the notion of community is that it defines the relationship not only between us as individuals but between people and the society in which they live, one that is based on responsi...”

“It is largely from family discipline that social discipline and a sense of responsibility is learnt. A modern notion of society – where rights and responsibilities go together – requires responsibi...”