Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blairis a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Together with then-US President George W. Bush, he initiated the Iraq War with the invasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth6 May 1953
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
government priorities arrogant
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
economic policy economic-policy
Education is the best economic policy there is.
world paradox globalization
One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
america worry world
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
children war generations
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.
motivational leadership art
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
thinking people community
There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.
thinking movement answers
What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.
new-york america challenges
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
world splits serious
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
listening
Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
growing-up powerful son
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
military intelligence-services iraq
It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability...
believe wmd iraq
The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.