Tony Blair

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 don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

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.

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

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

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

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves.

There was a study that was reported in the MIT Technology Review [in Dec 2015] saying that [in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere] the current average temperature rise is equivalent to moving south about ten meters a day. That’s pretty fast.

As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me.

The Federal Constitution… disavowed beforehand the habitual use of compulsion in enforcing the decisions of the majority.

In fact, only two groups are allowed to be class-conscious in the United States. One of them is the business community, which is rabidly class-conscious…The other group is the high planning sectors of the government.

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

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

While greatly honored internationally, Mandela remained on the US terrorist list until 2008, when at last a congressional resolution allowed him to enter the ‘land of the free’ without special dispensation.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Edward Bernays’ next famous achievement was Guatemala. He took over, at the request of the United Fruit Company, public relations activities to try to lay the basis for the U.S.-backed invasion, which destroyed an experiment in Guatemalan democracy…