Tony Blair

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

But 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.

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.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

Look, I am very competitive.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.