Tony Blair Quotes

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

There are many similarities between government and business, but they are not the same.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

In a mixed economy the public sector remains constrained by the overarching requirement of maintaining an efficient and profitable private sector.

I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

Good economics is good politics.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.

One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.

Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.