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
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the… — 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
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
There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions… — 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
I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There's a great frustration with the system. There's a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and… — 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 had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers… — 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
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 mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it… — 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
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair Copy Share
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
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
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair Copy Share
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
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
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
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for — Tony Blair Copy Share
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
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of… — Tony Blair Copy Share
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. — Tony Blair Copy Share
