Tony Blair Quotes

The idea that elected governments are the preserve of those of any other faith or culture is insulting and wrong. Muslims believe in democracy just as much as any other faith and, given the chance, show it.

We must pull this up by its roots. Within Britain, we must join up with our Muslims community to take on the extremists. Worldwide, we should confront it everywhere it exists.

This is the battle that must be won, a battle not just about the terrorist methods but their views. Not just their barbaric acts, but their barbaric ideas. Not only what they do but what they think and the thinking they would impose on others.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

The state of Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world.

She was the People's Princess, and that is how she will stay…in our hearts and in our memories forever.

We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people.

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

It's worse than you think. I really do believe in it.

Our minds moved fast and at that point in sync. When others were present, we felt the pace and power diminish, until, a bit like lovers desperate to get to love-making but disturbed by old friends dropping round, we would try to bustle them out, steering them doorwards with a hearty slap on the back.

emotional intelligence, zero

Politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it where the interests of the bigger strategic goal demand it

Experience has taught me there are two types of madmen: those who are simply mad and who, as a result, are dangerous; and those on whom madness confers creativity, strength, ingenuity and brio. Alastair was the latter.