Top 273 Blair Quotes & Sayings

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

I think politicians should express their faith. I have never adhered to the Blair view that we don't do God, indeed I'm not sure that Blair does.

I'm sure Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen think I'm garbage.

On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

Lionel Blair came bouncing up once and said, 'I love you two.'

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

Tony Blair's a friend.

Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticise anyone about the rules of the international community.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush (and, in their image, Tony Blair) bitterly annoyed their antagonists because they were - at least until the Iraq war caught up with Blair and Bush - Teflon. David Cameron is in this model.

I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

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

I like Tony Blair.

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

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

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

I had a huge crush on Tony Blair, in a totally sexual way.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

My actual real name is Bianca Blair.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

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

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.

If there?'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it?s this: I?m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

It was so clear from the beginning - what [Macon Blair] wanted to make [in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"].

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

'The Blair Witch Project' is a great movie.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?