Tony Blair World Quotations

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

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

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

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

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

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

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.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

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