Tony Blair

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

Tony Blair

I think life is a gift from God and should be lived to the full and with purpose.

Tony Blair

I was and remain as a person and as a prime minister an optimist. Politics may be the art of the possible but at least in life give the impossible a go.

Tony Blair

I’m not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

Leaders lead but in the end it’s the people who deliver.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

Tony Blair

You’ve got to listen but you’ve also got to lead.

Tony Blair

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.

Tony Blair