Tony Blair Quotes on Time (13 Quotes)


    The judgment has to be, at the present time, that Saddam Hussein is not cooperating with the inspectors and therefore is in breach of the U.N. resolution. And that's why time is running out.

    Your time is up. Go now. Don't wait until there has been more death and destruction.

    To succeed, we have to be quick on our feet, ... We have to embrace the Internet now, not in a few years time. Most of all, if we are to succeed, knowledge and how we use it need to be at the heart of all that we do.

    As China-EU trade increases, there will be disagreement from time to time, such as the textile trade dispute, ... What we should do is to resolve the problem to increase the bilateral trade.

    Blair turned up the pressure at the recent G8 Summit held in Gleneagles, Scotland. Overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the London transit system that occurred during the summit was Blair's continued call for the United States to do something about global warming. This time, he emphasized that he wasn't looking for the United States to join Kyoto per se, but to do something technological that would have an impact. What I am trying to do at the G8, ... is say 'America is not going to sign the Kyoto Treaty, let's leave that to one side.'


    We have given the parties some time to reflect. We will come back on Friday,

    There can be no negotiation, no further deals, no more amendments to what they have agreed, ... In the meantime, our forces remain on alert to the possibility of military action at any time without further warning.

    We the British are a people that stand by our friends in time of need, trial and tragedy, and we do so without hesitation now.

    The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

    We shouldn't get any agreement other than a good one. There's no point in going through the night and get any old agreement and ... so it is, in my view, entirely sensible to take the time to get it right.

    On the question of Iraq, I think the differences at the time of the conflict were well known,

    I stand 100 percent by it and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time.

    I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.


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