A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But
I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.
Tony Blair
Statement to press on arriving at Hillsborough
Castle for Northern Ireland talks, April 7 1998. The Good Friday
Agreement was signed three days later. |
I would never do anything to harm the country or anything
improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm
a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
Tony Blair
BBC interview November 1997, when Labour
was accused of changing its policy on tobacco advertising after
accepting £1m from formula one's Bernie Ecclestone. |
She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay,
how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
Tony Blair
On death of Princess Diana August 31 1997. |
[I was born in 1953, a child of the Cold War era, raised amid
the constant fear of a conflict with the potential to destroy
humanity. Whatever other dangers may exist, no such fear exists
today. 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. That is a prize beyond
value.
Tony Blair
Speech at summit in Paris between NATO
and Russia, May 27 1997. |
My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is
leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway
and I will not allow it to wait for you.
Tony Blair
Speech at Royal Ulster Agricultural Show,
May 16 1997. |
I will have no truck with a European superstate. If there
are moves to create that dragon I will slay it.
Tony Blair
Quoted in the Sun newspaper, April 1997. |
Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell
you: education, education and education.
Tony Blair
Speech to Labour Party conference October
1996. |
Margaret Thatcher is perhaps the politician I have the greatest
admiration for. I am reading her memoirs at the moment.
Tony Blair
Quoted in Daily Mirror September 1996. |
I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
Tony Blair
April 1996. |
I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly
accountable.
Tony Blair
Speech to Labour Party conference October
1995. |