Tony Blair.

If There Were Chemical or Biological or Nuclear Battlefield Weapons in Iraq, That Most Certainly Would Be a Weapon of Mass Destruction and the Idea That Their Use Would Not Threaten the Region’s Stability I Find Somewhat Eccentric.

On WMD, Dec 2003: I Don’t Think It’s Surprising That We Will Have to Look for WMD. but That Saddam Had Them Is Beyond Doubt.

That We Have yet to Find WMD Is Something I Have to Accept and It Is One of the Reasons I Think We Now Need a New Inquiry. It Is True David Kaye Is Saying We Have Not Found Large Stockpiles of Actual Weapons.

I Simply Say to People That This Threat of the Interaction of Unstable, Chaotic States with WMD and Terrorism Is the Security Threat of the 21St Century. And, If We Were Not Prepared to Deal with It in Relation to Iraq with All the History of UN Resolutions, with the History of Actually Using Weapons of Mass Destruction, We Would Never Be Making the Progress We Are Today with Iran, North Korea, Libya and with the Other Countries Where We Are Able to Deal with This Issue.

On Iraq, July 2003: If We Are Wrong to Have Gone to War, We Will Still Have Destroyed a Threat That Is Responsible for Inhuman Carnage.

On WMD, Apr 2003: I Am Absolutely Convinced and Confident About the Case on WMD – Critics Will Be Eating Some of Their Words.

On Iraq Sept 2002: What I Believe the Assessed Intelligence Has Established Beyond Doubt Is That Saddam Has Continued to Produce Chemical and Biological Weapons.

On WMD, Nov 1998: Before the Gulf War, Iraq Had Built up a Vast Arsenal of WMD. It Has Been Trying to Hide Them, and to Acquire More, Ever Since.

I Do Show the Fatigue When It’s There, but This Is a Job Where a Thousand People Are Kicking Your Backside Morning, Noon and Night, so It’s Not Surprising Really.

Education Is the Best Economic Policy There Is.

Sometimes It Is Better to Lose and Do the Right Thing Than to Win and Do the Wrong Thing.

I Am a Passionate Pro-European. I Always Have Been.

A Day Like Today Is Not a Day for Sound Bites Really. We Can Leave Those at Home. but I Feel the Hand of History on Our Shoulder.

My Project Will Be Complete When the Labour Party Learns to Love Peter Mandelson.

Power Without Principle Is Barren, but Principle Without Power Is Futile.

I Can Only Go One Way. I’ve Not Got a Reverse Gear.

The Only Difference Between Compassionate Conservatism and Conservatism Is That Under Compassionate Conservatism They Tell You They’re Not Going to Help You but They’re Really Sorry About It.

You Have Your Difficult Times and You Have Your Better Times and the Decisions You Take Are Often Very, Very Hard to Take, but Actually It’s a Privilege to Take Them. and the Reason for That Is, Just Occasionally, You Meet People – and I Do in Different Parts of the Country – Whose Lives We Have Changed.

I Am Not Saying That Everything Has Been Good, Because It Hasn’t. and Incidentally, for Those of You Who Think That You Will Ever Get a Government Where Everything Is Fine, That Doesn’t Happen. What Does Happen Is Progress, If We Have the Courage and the Determination.

The Strain Of, Frankly, Anti-American Feeling in Parts of European Politics Is Madness When Set Against the Long-term Interests of the World We Believe In. the Reality Is That None of the Problems That Press in on Us Can Be Resolved or Even Contemplated Without Them.

I’ll Leave It to Others Far More Knowledgeable Than Me to Talk About U2’s Music – All I’ll Say Is That, Along with Millions of Others Right Across the World, I’m a Huge Fan.

I Have Never Pretended to Be a Great House of Commons Man but I Can Pay the House the Greatest Compliment I Can by Saying That from First to Last I Never Stopped Fearing It and That Tingling Apprehension That I Felt at Three Minutes to Twelve Today I Felt as Much 10 Years Ago and Every Bit as Acute. It Is in That Fear That the Respect Is Contained.

Some May Belittle Politics but We Know, Who Are Engaged in It, That It Is Where People Stand Tall and Although I Know It Has Its Many Harsh Contentions It Is Still the Arena That Sets the Heart Beating a Little Faster, and If It Is on Occasions the Place of Low Skulduggery, It Is More Often the Place for the Pursuit of Noble Causes.

People Are Entitled to Think That Homosexuality Is Wrong, but They Are Not Entitled to Use the Criminal Law to Force That View Upon Others. a Society That Has Learned, Over Time, Racial and Sexual Equality Can Surely Come to Terms with Equality of Sexuality.

I Don’t Believe That If You Are Acting in a Competitive Market, That It’s the Job of Government to Come Along and Tell a Company – You Are Making Too Much Profit.

You Can Spend Ages Trying to Stop the Highest Paid Earners Earning the Money but in an International Market Like Today, You Probably Would Drive Them Abroad. What Does That Matter? Surely the Important Thing Is to Level up Those People That Don’t Have Opportunity in Our Society.

The Justice for Me Is Concentrated on Lifting Incomes of Those That Don’t Have a Decent Income. It’s Not a Burning Ambition for Me to Make Sure That David Beckham Earns Less Money.

I Grew up with Harold Wilson as Prime Minister and He Was Woven into My Life as a Youngster. He Was There at the Top of Politics for Many Years and I Think of Him as the First Modern Prime Minister. He Was the First Prime Minister That People Thought They Might Wander up to Him in the Street and Say, ‘Hello, Harold’. He Also Brought in a Whole New Culture, a Whole New Country. He Made the Country Very, Very Different. When I Was Younger I Remember Seeing the Beatles in Downing Street and How Very Incredible That Was. in That Culture of the Sixties, It Was a Revolution and a Change in the Way People Thought and Worked and Lived and He Will Always Go Down for Me as One of the Most Significant Political Figures of the 20Th Century. My Dad Was, I’m Sorry to Say, a Tory, but Even He Had a Lot of Respect for Harold Wilson.

You Look Underneath That UKIP Facade and You See Something Pretty Nasty and Unpleasant.

This Is My Covenant with the British People. Judge Me Upon It. the Buck Stops Here. for the Future, Not the Past, for the Many, Not the Few, for Trust, Not Betrayal, for the Age of Achievement, Not the Age of Decline – That Is My Covenant with the British People.

I Wouldn’t Want to Win on an Old Fashioned Leftist Platform. Even If I Thought It Was the Route to Victory, I Wouldn’t Take It.