Tony Blair Quotes - Page 6

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

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.

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

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

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

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

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

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.

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

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

As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

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

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

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

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.