Tony Blair Quotes About Economics

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  • Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

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    "Tony Blair: 'A new coalition for the environment'" by Tony Blair, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.
  • Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

  • The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

    "A cringing appeasement of the rich and the powerful" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.
  • In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

  • The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

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    Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.
  • The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

  • The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

  • The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

    Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub
  • If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

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Tony Blair

  • Born: May 6, 1953
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom