633 Quotes by Tony Blair

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

Our aim was to show concern and determination, and boost the crucial task of restoring confidence in the region, ... The message was also intended to show how painful changes can increase strength and stability in the longer term.

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will

People fear some external force is going to impose some internal target on you, which is going to restrict your economic growth,