Tony Blair

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.

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

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

[on Jeremy Cobyn] It is a different type of Labour Party. Can it be taken back? I don’t know

I believe Mrs. Thatcher’s emphasis on enterprise was right.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

The official mission of NATO was changed to become to be-to control and safeguard the global energy system, sea lanes, pipelines and so on. And, of course, on the side, it’s acting as an intervention force for the United States.

[no the rich] quite happy to pay more tax to fund better public services or to pay down our debt.

It’s only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it’s not terrorism.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

We get the leaders we vote for. We get the policies we vote for. And when we don’t vote, that’s when we wind up with government of, by and for other people.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.

The fightback now of our party gathers speed and gathers pace.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

The revolution does not need historians.

We’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.