In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
Quote by Tony Blair
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In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
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Tony Blair Quotes
- The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
- In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
- In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
- In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
- I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.
- In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
- The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Best Quotes
- Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
- Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
- Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Conscience is God present in man.