25 Quotes by Ian Blair

It's mostly been a very friendly and generally good atmosphere,

It has facilitators, so we're looking for the bomb makers, we're looking for the chemists, we're looking for the financiers, we're looking for the people who groomed these young people, so it will be a wide network that we're trying to penetrate.

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.

I'd much rather resign than be pushed.

I can remember being asked a question about a previous individual who was given a caution. I think that was a wrong decision.

The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of July 7 and 21, and I think this is a very good example of that,