Tony Blair

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

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

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

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.

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

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

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Under the Rule of Law…the individual is free to pursue his personal ends and desires, certain that the powers of government will not be used deliberately to frustrate his efforts.

Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

[After Communism succeeds] …then, there will come a peace across the earth.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Sometimes it’s important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

So it seems like if they want to reduce abortion, the best thing to do would be to support contraception – but they’re against contraception, too, because contraception and abortion decouple sexuality from procreation. That’s why I think religious preoccupation with abortion is largely about controlling the sexuality of women.

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.