Top 180 Tony Blair Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.”

— Tony Blair

152. “If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

154. “I haven’t got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!”

— Tony Blair

155. “I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.”

— Tony Blair

156. “I couldn’t live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn’t even making them – or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.”

— Tony Blair

157. “Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.”

— Tony Blair

158. “The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.”

— Tony Blair

159. “There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.”

— Tony Blair

160. “It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.”

— Tony Blair

161. “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.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

163. “We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.”

— Tony Blair

164. “We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we’re also in turmoil as a result of this result.”

— Tony Blair

165. “Do I know I’m right? Judgments 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.”

— Tony Blair

166. “I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.”

— Tony Blair

167. “I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.”

— Tony Blair

168. “What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.”

— Tony Blair

169. “I abhor Saddam’s regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.”

— Tony Blair

170. “Tony Blair’s response when asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America: “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out.”

— Tony Blair

171. “I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.”

— Tony Blair

172. “I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation’s opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.”

— Tony Blair

173. “After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.”

— Tony Blair

174. “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.”

— Tony Blair

175. “I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.”

— Tony Blair

176. “It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.”

— Tony Blair

177. “The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation – which include grave-robbing – show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.”

— Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

179. “If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.”

— Tony Blair

180. “There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.”

— Tony Blair

181. “Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree.”

— Tony Blair

182. “I can’t stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.”

— Tony Blair