Tony Blair Quotes About Terrorism

Quotes about: Terrorism

• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  Tony Blair

  Patriotic, Fighting, Our World

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

• The 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 Blair

  Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  America, Battle, United States

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Evil, Today

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

• Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

  Tony Blair

  Wmd, Should Have, Forgiving

• Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

  Tony Blair

  Hatred, Terrorism, Reprisal

  "President Bush, Prime Minister Blair Seek Resolution to Enforce Mideast Peace". Joint News Conference, www.pbs.org. July 28, 2006.

• Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

  Tony Blair

  Successful, Loss, Simple

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

• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Trying, Reform

  "'Times are tough', Blair admits". news.bbc.co.uk. November 3, 2005.

• 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

• The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Important, Terrorism, Britain

• The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, Blow, Election

• After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

  Tony Blair

  Terrible Events, Profound, World

  "They said...", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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