Quote

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Lawyer
Politician
Edinburgh
Scotland
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Anthony Blair
Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Came
Politics
Party
Didn
Change
Come
Country
Labour

More quotes by Tony Blair

Image
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Tony Blair
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
Image
She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
Tony Blair
Image
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'
Tony Blair
Image
I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.
Tony Blair
Image
I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.
Tony Blair
Image
...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
Tony Blair
Image
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
Image
Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.
Tony Blair
Image
I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
Tony Blair
Image
When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
Tony Blair
Image
Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
Tony Blair
Image
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair
Image
You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
Tony Blair
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 the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.
Tony Blair
Image
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
Tony Blair
Image
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair
Image
Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Image
Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
Tony Blair
Image
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
Tony Blair