Famous quotes by Tony Blair:

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

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could"

"This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in."

"Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her."

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

"Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver."

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

"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 religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism."