QUOTES

Get rid of the false choice: principles or no principles. Replace it with the true choice. Forward or back, I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear."


"...I know it's hard for people to keep faith. Some of the people may have a different take on me. But I have the same take on them. I trust their decency. I trust their innate good sense.
I know I am the same person I always was, older, tougher, more experienced, but basically the same person believing the same things.


I've never led this Party by calculation. Policy you calculate.
Leadership comes by instinct.


I believe the British people will forgive a government mistakes; will put the media onslaught in more perspective than we think; but what they won't forgive is cowardice in the face of a challenge. The answer to any of these challenges is not easy. "


"...After 6 years, more battered without but stronger within. It's the only leadership I can offer. And it's the only type of leadership worth having.


The purpose: to rebuild the public realm, to discover amongst all the modern pressures, the virtues of community, of tolerance, of decency, of respect. To bring to the self interested consumer age, the value of solidarity. Not to cease to want the best for oneself but to wish it for all.


To build a country not just proud of their own achievements, but proud of what we can do together. Proud not just of how they get and spend but what we in friendship with each other can do for each other.


This is our challenge. To stride forward where we have always previously stumbled. To renew in government. Steadfast in our values. Radical in our methods. Open in our politics.


If we faint in the day of adversity, our strength is small. And ours isn't. We have the strength, the maturity, now the experience to do it.


So let it be done."- Tony Blair, to the Labour Party conference, Bournemouth