Tony Blair Quotes - Page 11

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

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

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

We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...

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

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

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

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

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

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

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

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

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.

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.

What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.

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

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

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

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

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