Jamie Carragher Quotes

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well.

Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

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.

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

He [Clement Attlee] is a modest little man with much to be modest about.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Clement Atlee got out/