Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must… — 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