Tony Blair

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

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

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

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

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

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

I feel that [Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The U.S. war-so-called war against terror has been a smashing success. There was a small group up in the tribal areas of mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, and we have succeeded in spreading it over the whole world.

The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

I don’t respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.

I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

It is because Russia is seen as a threat, because Russia is seen as becoming a competitor. I believe this approach is mistaken.