10 Downing Street - The UK Prime Minister's home page, providing information about the activities of the Government, past and present occupants of Number 10 and a virtual tour of the building.
The Tony Blair Dossier - A growing selection of information on the British Prime Minister and information on British politics .
ThankYouTony.com - US-based site to thank Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support in the war on Iraq. Includes selected speeches and links to sites of the UK administration and military, and offers the possibility to send a message.
Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - Tony Blair - Presents the Prime Minister's biography, voting record, list of political jobs and committees, profile by Andrew Roth and contact details.
Wikipedia - Tony Blair - Encyclopedia entry reviews his political career and private life. Includes links to the entries of his Cabinet members past and current.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Blair, Tony This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Blair, Tony
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Blair, Tony Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Blair, Tony
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage is a rest period between romances. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Blair, Tony It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Blair, Tony
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blair, Tony All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Blair, Tony
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Blair, Tony You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Blair, Tony
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Blair, Tony Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Blair, Tony
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Blair, Tony "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Blair, Tony
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Blair, Tony Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Blair, Tony
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Blair, Tony Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blair, Tony
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Blair, Tony The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Blair, Tony
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Blair, Tony I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Blair, Tony
