Tony Blair

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

I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.

I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

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

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.

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.

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.

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

[Overseas] we build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road, they blow them up, we build again. In the meantime we can’t get a f**king school in Brooklyn.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

A very small proportion of declassified documents have anything to do with security, no matter how broadly you interpret it. They primarily have to do with ensuring that the major enemy, namely, the domestic population, does not find out what power systems are doing.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.