Tony Blair Quotes

Now is not the time for a change in direction…but a change in gear.

There will be no cutting and running in Iraq.

The good news is that it is easy to describe the problem in Iraq today, the bad news is it’s tough to tackle it.

I somehow feel I am not being entirely persuasive in certain quarters.

To retreat now, I believe, would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the United Nations back into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East ; leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better.

Every time I have asked us to go to war, I have hated it. I spent months trying to get Milosevic to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, delaying action while we negotiated endlessly.