Tony Blair Quotes

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I think most people who have dealt with me, think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy and I am.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism. They are what hold our nation back. Not just in the Conservative Party but within us, within our nation.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair

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

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

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.
Tony Blair

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
Tony Blair

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education.

It will be a government that seeks to restore trust in politics in this country.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
Tony Blair

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.
Tony Blair

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.
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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

They say I hate the party, and its traditions. I don't. I love this party. There's only one tradition I hated: losing.
Tony Blair

I will have no truck with a European superstate. If there are moves to create that dragon I will slay it.
Tony Blair

The third way stands for a modernised social democracy, passionate in its commitment to social justice and the goals of the centre-left, but flexible innovative and forward-looking in the means to achieve them.
Tony Blair