I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I
came into politics to change the country.
Tony Blair
Speech to Labour Party conference October
1995. |
Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going
to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically
correct thing to do.
Tony Blair
Defending his decision to send eldest son
Euan to London Oratory School which had opted out of local education
authority control under a policy which Labour Party opposed,
December 1994. |
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy
to say yes.
Tony Blair
October 1994. |
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people
and our party are joined together again in victory at the next
general election Labour in its rightful place in government
again.
Tony Blair
Speech on being elected leader of Labour
Party July 21 1994. |
I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught
my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but
because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most
closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It
stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship,
not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people
to be the same but because only through equality in our economic
circumstances can our individuality develop properly.
Tony Blair
Maiden speech in House of Commons as MP
for Sedgefield, July 6 1983. |