Tony Blair

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

“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.”

“In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.”

“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess t...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stabili...”

“Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.”

“I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same...”

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

“Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.”

“Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.”

“I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.”

“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 le...”

“My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic...”

“Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.”

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

“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 deci...”