The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.
Tony BlairI just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, โthe big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,โ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
Tony BlairThe purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
Tony BlairThey could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
Tony BlairBut I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
Tony Blair