9 Tony Blair Quotes on Policy

Tony Blair quotes on policy

6. We have no plans to increase tax at all.

8. I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

12. Powers that are constitutionally there can be used but the Scottish Labour Party is not planning to raise income tax and once the power is given it is like any parish council: it's got the right to exercise it.

23. I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

25. For the moment, let me say this: Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

35. As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

40. What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.

46. Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

53. To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country.