“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“you have to be able to answer those questions plainly and clearly. There can be qualifications and “get-outs,” but the answers must… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One thing I'm not sure of - and it's a very open question - is whether the type of politics that I… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image