Tony Blair Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Responsibility, Recognition

  "A cringing appeasement of the rich and the powerful" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

• 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 only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

  Tony Blair

  Selfish, Responsibility, Today

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

• At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

  Tony Blair

  Struggle, Heart, Responsibility

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

• I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Thinking, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Sadness, Lost

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

  Tony Blair

  New York, Responsibility, Doubt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Together

• I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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