633 Quotes by Tony Blair

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

I totally understand the concerns that people have, the worries that they have about precipitate military action. But the United Nations has taken a very clear position on this... We are going down the U.N. route but the U.N. route has to be the way of dealing with it, not avoiding it.

We came to the point a few months ago, where as a result of the 'No' vote in the referendums, there was a sense that Europe was in paralysis.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

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.

(It) puts the relation between the European Union and India on a new and higher and more intense level

We are not talking about the free-for-all economics of the hard right, ... But we are not going to get the economy we need unless our labor force is adaptable, and the costs and burdens on industry are as low as possible.