It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Quote by Tony Blair
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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Tony Blair Quotes
- 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.
- In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
- It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
- 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.
- 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 government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
- Education is the best economic policy there is.
- 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.
- 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.
- The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Best Quotes
- I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.