Quotes By Tony Blair

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

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

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

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

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

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.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

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.

Look, I am very competitive.

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

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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.