Tony Blair

There is no way you’re going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would’ve killed 300,000.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I’m not a politician.

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.

Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

The only way we could get what most of the population wants with regard to health care is either by a large-scale popular movement, which would mean moving towards democracy and nobody in power is going to want that, or else if the business community decides that it’s good for them.

…I try to keep in mind the principle that one should not try to persuade; rather, to lay out the territory as best one can so that others can use their own intellectual powers to determine for themselves what they think is taking place and what is right or wrong.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The option preferred by the privileged is for the fate of everyone else to be in the hands of insurance company executives whose goal, as Milton Friedman can explain, is to ensure maximum profit and market share: meaning the worst possible health care.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

When the interests of the privileged and powerful are the guiding commitment of both political factions, people who do not share these interests tend to stay home.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.