Top 38 Tony Blair Iraq Quotes
#1. We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
Tony Blair
#2. The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.
Tony Blair
#3. The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.
Tony Blair
#4. None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
Benjamin Whichcote
#5. The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry
Andrew Marr
#6. George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
Bianca Jagger
#7. Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
Tony Blair
#8. What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report ... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.
Tony Blair
#9. The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit
Tony Blair
#10. They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
Tony Blair
#11. I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.
Tony Blair
#12. New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.
Chace Crawford
#13. Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
Hal Borland
#14. Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself ... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!
Tony Blair
#15. Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
Charles Kennedy
#16. I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.
Alastair Campbell
#17. What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.
Tony Blair
#19. Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.
Anais Nin
#20. And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.
Tony Blair
#21. I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Tony Blair
#22. It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.
Tony Blair
#23. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.
Tony Blair
#24. Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.
Tony Blair
#25. Just because I live in the sunlight, enjoy being blond, and wear a cheerleading uniform, that doesn't mean I'm stupid. I'm so sick of that.
Kelly Creagh
#26. The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.
Tony Blair
#27. We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver
Tony Blair
#28. I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
Tony Blair
#29. Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
Noel Gallagher
#30. We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
Tony Blair
#31. Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
Stockwell Day
#32. In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
Tony Blair
#33. I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.
Simon Hoggart
#34. There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.
Tony Blair
#35. The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
Tony Blair
#36. There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.
- Lady Susan
Jane Austen
#37. What a treasure that smile was, passed down through the ages from father to son, tucked away in hope chests during son-less generations, buffed and displayed proudly whenever company was over.
Maggie Stiefvater
#38. I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
Edmund White
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