Tony blair

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

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

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Be a doer and not a critic.

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

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

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.