Tony Blair Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

• 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.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Journey, Thinking

• The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Misunderstood, Care

  "Full text: Blair's conference speech". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Creative, Healthy

• I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, Politician, Decent

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

• I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

• There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

  Tony Blair

  Skills, Support Systems, Government

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Religion, Belief

  "Transcript of the third night's interview with Tony Blair". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

• I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

  Tony Blair

  Politician, Sleeves, I Can

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

• I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Matter, Sometimes

  "Tony Blair: How I became Prime Minister of the world". Interview with John Rentoul, www.independent.co.uk. October 28, 2013.

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