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If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us. — Tony Blair

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. — Tony Blair

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq. — Noel Gallagher

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. — David Bailey

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money. — Tony Blair

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person. — Louise Nurding

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. — Tony Blair

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism". — Tony Blair

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale. — Tony Blair

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community — Tony Blair

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do. — Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament. — Tony Blair

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God. — Alastair Campbell

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics. — Gordon Brown

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

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result. — Tony Blair

We have no plans to increase tax at all. — Tony Blair

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations? — Robert Mugabe

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government. — Robert Jackson

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon — Tony Blair

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. — William Hague

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. — Tony Blair

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out. — Tony Blair

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on. — Tony Blair

Education is the best economic policy there is. — Tony Blair

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both. — Tony Blair

Of particular importance to us is the recognition ... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state. — Tony Blair

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland — Tony Blair

Look, I am very competitive. — Tony Blair

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine. — Tony Blair

Enough of talking. It is time now to do. — Tony Blair

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit — Tony Blair

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics ... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved. — Tony Blair

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. — Tony Blair

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. — Tony Blair

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. — Tony Blair

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair

I think most people who have dealt with me, think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am. — Tony Blair

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

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum. — Tony Blair

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious. — Alastair Campbell

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed. — Tony Blair

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together. — Tony Blair

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. — Tony Blair

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace! — Tony Blair

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. — Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. — Mo Ibrahim

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it. — Tony Blair

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. — Tony Blair

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust. — Tony Blair

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. — Peter Mandelson

We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists. — Tony Blair

Be a doer and not a critic. — Tony Blair

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. — Tony Blair

What matters is what works. — Tony Blair

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

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver — Tony Blair

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister! — Tony Blair

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. — Doris Lessing

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. — Ian McKellen

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction. — Tony Blair

Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke. — Frankie Boyle

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. — Charles Kennedy

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. — Tony Blair

Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education. — Tony Blair

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

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

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest. — Tony Blair

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit. — Tony Blair

The British people are the boss. — Tony Blair

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair. — Charles Dance

I think I made the wrong career choice — Tony Blair

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

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

We must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research — Tony Blair

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. — Tony Blair

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. — Tony Blair

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one — Tony Blair

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us. — Tony Blair

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. — Tony Blair

Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick? — Jay Leno

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. — Tony Blair

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. — Tony Blair

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen. — Tony Blair

We know the problems ... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will — Tony Blair

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. — Tony Blair

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. — Tony Blair

The class war is over. — Tony Blair

Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go. — Robin Cook

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. — Tony Blair

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. — Tony Blair

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. — Tony Blair

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle. — Tony Blair

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. — Tony Blair

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. — Tony Blair