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Tony Blair

(1953) Autobiographer United Kingdom

363 quotes in 1507 categories

Tony Blair talks about how politics is often about looking electable, not just ideas. He also says he is sure we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction. He adds that even when something seems impossible, we should still give it a try.

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Tony Blair is an autobiographer from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About Tony Blair

Born: May 6, 1953
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Autobiographer
Notable works: Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
Spouse: Cherie Blair

About Tony Blair

He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held shadow‑cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was the MP for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, making him the longest‑serving Labour prime minister and the only person to lead Labour to three consecutive general‑election victories. In 2016 he founded the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and serves as its executive chairman.

Awards & Honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom Charlemagne Prize Congressional Gold Medal Dan David Prize Financial Times Person of the Year Philadelphia Liberty Medal Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights Knight of the Garter

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honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem honorary doctorate of Haifa University

Quotes by Tony Blair

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

Minister

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The British people are the boss.

Boss

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Be a doer and not a critic.

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Enough of talking. It is time now to do.

Action

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Education, education, education

Education

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We have no plans to increase tax at all.

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The class war is over.

Class

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I think I made the wrong career choice

Career

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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

People

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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Challenges

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Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

Britain

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We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.

Action

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I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

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

Adversity

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I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

Railway

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I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election

Democracy

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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it…

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

Care

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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can…

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People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

American politics

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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

Biological weapons

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Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis…

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Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

April

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There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear…

Ambiguity

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I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about…

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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as…

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Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden… As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or…

Action

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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in…

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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be…

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The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get…

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I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo.…

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Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that…

Afghanistan

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“But all progressive movements have to beware their own successes. The progress they make reinvents the society they work in, and they…

Success

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The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market…

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At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling…

Belief

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I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center…

Big responsibility

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I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know,…

Around the world

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If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment,…

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All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy…

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Tony Blair by topic

People (74) Politics (56) Israel (52) World (41) Thinking (40) Iraq (34) Time (30) Today (21) Weapons (18) Inspirational (18) Europe (18) Country (18) War (17)