Tony Blair Quotes

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Tony Blair

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 6, 1953

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

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Education is the best economic policy there is.

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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

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I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

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You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

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