Quote

My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.

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
Right
Views
Ideological
Every
Bits
Practicals
Courses
Practical
Really
Course
Bill
Way
Values
Bills
Never
Future
Neither
Strong
Clinton
Unblinking
Left
View
Applying

More quotes by Tony Blair

Image
If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.
Tony Blair
Image
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
Tony Blair
Image
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
Tony Blair
Image
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.
Tony Blair
Image
What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
Tony Blair
Image
Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
Tony Blair
Image
We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
Tony Blair
Image
We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
Tony Blair
Image
We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.
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
Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
Tony Blair
Image
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
Tony Blair
Image
The free enterprise system has not failed the financial system has failed.
Tony Blair
Image
It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
Tony Blair
Image
I don't think there Is a way politically to beat Insurgent Movement Of Populism.
Tony Blair
Image
I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
Image
The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
Tony Blair
Image
Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.
Tony Blair
Image
There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.
Tony Blair
Image
People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
Tony Blair