633 Quotes by Tony Blair

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa’s poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.

I don’t think it’s surprising we will have to look for them. I’m confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what’s happened to those weapons because he had them.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it’s out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today.

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.

The public think the politicians don’t know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation’s opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland.