I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony BlairThe thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
Tony BlairActually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.
Tony BlairMine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony BlairWell, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.
Tony Blair