I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. Tony Blair More Quotes by Tony Blair More Quotes From Tony Blair Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe Tony Blair future vision long It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem. Tony Blair views giving people I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. Tony Blair party leader people The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. Tony Blair turbulence normal ocean I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase. Tony Blair future people thinking There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now. Tony Blair political government feelings 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. Tony Blair strong views winning I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right. Tony Blair generations bigs choices The class war is over. Tony Blair class war Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world? Tony Blair attachment believe lying The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems. Tony Blair victory matter winning If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably. Tony Blair growth business country I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide. Tony Blair long-ago people thinking One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently. Tony Blair alive important mind But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. Tony Blair public-service persons people 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. Tony Blair worry america world But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. Tony Blair keys order fall The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. Tony Blair peaceful issues people We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe. Tony Blair immigration taken europe 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. Tony Blair responsibility journey thinking
