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. – Tony Blair
In Downing Street they called me ‘Boss’. Civil servants would always call me ‘Prime Minister’. – Tony Blair
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. – Tony Blair
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. – Tony Blair
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. – Tony Blair
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. – Tony Blair
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. – Tony Blair
I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands. – Tony Blair
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today’s world, it can now spread like contagion. – Tony Blair
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn’t especially religious. – Tony Blair
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. – Tony Blair
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. – Tony Blair
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. – Tony Blair
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. – Tony Blair
