I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

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

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

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

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

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

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research

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

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

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