Tony Blair Quotes

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

You can't play politics with the future of America.

You ... have done more than elect a President. You have created a new party that ought to hold power for twenty-five years.

We don’t have leaders like Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt or Nelson Mandella in politics today. If we are to go forward in the world, new leaders will have to emerge.

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

In May 1961 when I took over power as the leader of the revolutionary group, I honestly felt as if I had been given a pilfered household or bankrupt firm to manage. Around me I could find little hope of encouragement. The outlook was bleak. But i had to rise above this pessimism to rehabilitate the household. I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation. Only by reforming the economic structure would we lay a foundation for decent living standards.

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That's a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he'd take a measured, empathetic approach. I don't see there ever being another Barack Obama.