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
children views numbers
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
views people giving
It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
war iraq views
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
views class misunderstood
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.
views europe prepared
I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.
strong winning views
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
absolutely chance
We will never have a better chance (of peace) this generation, of that I have absolutely no doubt,
europe opportunity sign turn
We in Europe have a real opportunity to show that...we are not fair-weather friends, who turn away at the first sign of difficulty.
countries undergone
We are two countries that have undergone a lot of change,
felt sentiments totally
These sentiments are completely and totally unacceptable, ... I felt a real sense of revulsion at those remarks.
greater infinitely iraqi living people prosperity saddam standard
The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,
according strategy timing
The strategy and timing are proceeding according to plan,
job
The timescale (for withdrawal) is when the job is done,
correct gave information intelligence percent services stand
I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time.