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.

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.

At every stage, we should seek to avoid war. But if the threat cannot be removed peacefully, please let us not fall for the delusion that it can be safely ignored.

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.