Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only thing missing from the retirement party for Blair was a gold clock. It's quite clear that there's an orderly handover taking place. What we saw is the new leader.

Charles Kennedy

History will certainly judge Tony Blair on Iraq, but first the British people will judge him on Thursday, ... Blair's judgment on the Iraq war was fatally flawed.

David Ervine

There is an opportunity, perhaps with what has happened over the weekend with the intervention of Tony Blair from Japan, to concentrate people's minds on the issues.

Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister, that has now all but vanished.

Jose Barroso

All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Britain. There is a strong consensus on the need to defend our values.

Dan Connor

For me it was great that I had someone like Blair on set because he's obviously going through what I'm going to encounter.

Matt Reeves

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

George Osborne

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.

Bertie Ahern

As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.

Dominic Moore

Definitely we need to improve. (Without Betts) it means the other guys have to step up and do a lot of little things that Blair did quietly.

The most obvious image and the way the theme is used is Blair as Bush's poodle,

Kenneth Clarke

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

Blair is trying to put people's perspective in the right place. Maybe they expected too much in the first week. He's saying that we are making progress and we are going to try and work with the U.N., and that reassures people.

Blair is most deserving of this opportunity and his commitment to training and perseverance has been rewarded.

Thom Yorke

Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned.

Chris Stewart

Blair has certainly been an ultimate team player. He's played very well for us and he's certainly all about the team. Paulo's no different. I mean, whatever it takes for us to win. They support each other, and that's very good for us.

Martin Jacques

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.

We were fortunate to get out of here with a win. We were lucky. We're going to have to find a way to win without Blair (Dunn, a sharp-shooting guard who's out until at least next week with mono).

George Galloway

Tony Blair will be in a dilemma. One part of him will want me to be evicted early so I don't score another victory. On the other hand, as long as I'm in there, I'm leaving him alone.

Tony Blair was telling Murdoch what he wanted to hear because he needs Murdoch's support,

David Cameron

Tony Blair used to say he would be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Sadly and frankly, he has not been either.

Every day you hear of new deaths. Tony Blair has actually made Iraq a worse place for the Iraqi people.

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

Francis Maude

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

Jeremy Rifkin

The public reaction was instant and overwhelmingly in opposition, and Blair was caught by surprise. Here's a man who was wildly popular.

Doris Lessing

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Michael Sheen

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

Bush isn't going to follow the detail to the same extent (as Clinton), but he is helping to put his imprimatur on that process in an important week, when Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern put forward their latest proposals to revive the peace process,

Neil Kinnock

Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,

Mr Blair has made history and no one's more pleased than me that we've got a Labour prime minister in for a third term. No-one's more pleased than me. We put our money, and our people and our efforts, where our mouth is. We've done that as a whole trade union movement not just the T&G.

Mr Blair came to the US when Mr Bush was talking about regime change, and when he left Mr Bush started talking about disarmament as the objective.

Malcolm Rifkind

Of course there is a risk. But ... neither Gordon Brown nor Tony Blair had even been a junior minister before they took up their present responsibilities. So sometimes these risks are justified.

Bianca Jagger

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.