Tony Blair

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

— Tony Blair

#art

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. ↗

— Tony Blair

#anywhere #chance #choice #choose #democracy

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. ↗

— Tony Blair

#battle #between #democratic #free #states

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

— Tony Blair

#go #got #i #i can #only

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. ↗

— Tony Blair

#divide #hate #humanity #idea #just

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. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. ↗

— Tony Blair

#do the right thing #lose #right #right thing #sometimes

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. ↗

— Tony Blair

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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. ↗

— Tony Blair

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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. ↗

— Tony Blair

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