Top 180 Tony Blair Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Education, education, education.”

— Tony Blair

2. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

— Tony Blair

3. “The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.”

— Tony Blair

4. “Enough of talking. It is time now to do.”

— Tony Blair

5. “Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.”

— Tony Blair

6. “The class war is over.”

— Tony Blair

7. “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in and how many want out.”

— Tony Blair

8. “Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

10. “The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.”

— Tony Blair

11. “I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.”

— Tony Blair

12. “There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour, but not altering it entirely.”

— Tony Blair

13. “I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country’s historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.”

— Tony Blair

14. “My teachers used to call me a failure.”

— Tony Blair

15. “The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.”

— Tony Blair

16. “This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.”

— Tony Blair

17. “Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.”

— Tony Blair

18. “There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa’s poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.”

— Tony Blair

19. “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.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

22. “Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.”

— Tony Blair

23. “The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

25. “This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today.”

— Tony Blair

26. “The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.”

— Tony Blair

27. “Look, I am very competitive.”

— Tony Blair

28. “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.”

— Tony Blair

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29. “You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.”

— Tony Blair

30. “The British people are the boss.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

32. “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.”

— Tony Blair

33. “What matters is what works.”

— Tony Blair

34. “Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it.”

— Tony Blair

35. “I think I made the wrong career choice.”

— Tony Blair

36. “I am a pretty straight sort of guy.”

— Tony Blair

37. “Any parent wants what is 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.”

— Tony Blair

38. “The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.”

— Tony Blair

39. “The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for.”

— Tony Blair

40. “There’s a great frustration with the system. There’s a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I’ve got enough problems in my own politics.”

— Tony Blair

41. “It’s not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.”

— Tony Blair

42. “We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.”

— Tony Blair

43. “So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.”

— Tony Blair

44. “Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life.”

— Tony Blair

45. “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.”

— Tony Blair

46. “The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.”

— Tony Blair

47. “The fear of missing out means today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.”

— Tony Blair

48. “For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.”

— Tony Blair

49. “If you don’t see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year’s time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.”

— Tony Blair

50. “That’s the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn’t happen, doesn’t happen.”

— Tony Blair