Zitat des Tages von Tony Blair:
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
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.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
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.
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
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.
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
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.
I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
Be a doer and not a critic.
Look, I am very competitive.
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.
I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
