Some may belittle politics but we who are engaged in it know
that it is where people stand tall. Although I know that it
has many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets
the heart beating a little faster. If it is, on occasions, the
place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the
pursuit of noble causes. I wish everyone, friend or foe, well.
That is that. The end.
Tony Blair
Last official words as Prime Minister,
said at Prime Minister's Questions in House of Commons on 27
June 2007. |
Today's media, more than ever, hunts in a pack ... It is like
a feral beast just tearing people and reputations to bits.
Tony Blair
Saying TV and newspaper coverage has worsened
during his 10 years at Downing Street, June 2007. |
I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart I did what I
thought was right. I may have been wrong. That is your call.
Tony Blair
Resignation speech May 10 2007, announcing
that he will step down as Britain's PM following month. |
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost
thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So
it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you,
the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and
my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good
luck.
Tony Blair
Resignation speech May 10 2007, announcing
that he will step down as Britain's PM following month. |
There are people who still think that the compromises that
were made along the way were unacceptable. But sometimes politics
is about that in order to achieve a better end -- and there
are always two kinds of people in politics -- those who stand
aside and commentate and those who get their hands dirty and
do.
Tony Blair
On return of devolved power-sharing government
in Northern Ireland, May 8 2007. |
Look back and we see centuries pockmarked by conflict, hardship,
even hatred among the people of these islands. Look forward
today and we see the chance, at last, to escape the heavy chains
of that history, to make history anew, not as a struggle between
warring traditions but as a search for a future, shared, held
in common and bound by goodwill and peace.
Tony Blair
On return of devolved power-sharing government
in Northern Ireland, May 8 2007. |
We won't stop this by pretending it isn't young black kids
doing it.
Tony Blair
Calling on black community to do more to
eliminate knife crime, April 2007. |
I find her very hot.
Tony Blair
Responding to Glasgow radio presenter who
said "Scots guys find your wife quite hot", April
2007. |
There are elements, at least, of the Iranian regime that are
backing, financing, arming, supporting terrorism in Iraq.
Tony Blair
April 2007. |
If you come here lawfully, we welcome you. If you are permitted
to stay here permanently, you become an equal member of our
community and become one of us. The right to be different. The
duty to integrate. That is what being British means.
Tony Blair
Telling emigrants they had a duty to integrate
with the mainstream of society, December 2006. |
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