Tony Blair

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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

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

[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.

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.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

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.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

But that [‘friendly Fascism’] requires an honest ideologue, a Hitler type, not someone whose only detectable ideology is Me.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

The Obama campaign greatly impressed the public relations industry, which named Obama ‘Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008,’ easily beating out Apple computers. A good predictor of the elections a few weeks later. The industry’s regular task is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices, thus undermining markets as they are conceptualized in economic theory, but benefiting the masters of the economy. And it recognizes the benefits of undermining democracy in much the same way, creating uninformed voters who make often irrational choices between the factions of the business party that amass sufficient support from concentrated private capital to enter the electoral arena, then to dominate campaign propaganda.

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.

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

The Drug War is an effort to stimulate fear of dangerous people from who we have to protect ourselves. It is also, a direct form of control of what are called “dangerous classes,” those superfluous people who don’t really have a function contributing to profit-making and wealth.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That’s why we have government.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category-except for the category of familiarity.