633 Quotes by Tony Blair

If people in the end think that you can’t do something in a way which is acceptable then it won’t fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, ‘I understand why it is being done.’

Tony Blair’s response when asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America: “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby’s nappy to bring you face to face with life’s reality.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other’s equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

I don’t concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree.

The understanding which has driven New Labour’s reform is to put the individual citizen – the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen – at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements.

When my parents were growing up the world’s population was under three billion. During my children’s lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don’t need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century.

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community.