Tariq Ali Quotes

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

I didn't think [Canadian Prime Minister John] Diefenbaker was a son of a bitch. I thought he was a prick.

'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Great as is the popularity of the President [Madison], it is barely able to resist the torrent of public opinion against the Secretary of War, who, so far as I can judge, is universally considered by the people of this country as incompetent ...

[George W. Bush is] … the most dangerous President in my lifetime.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Senator Rand Paul is a Whacko Bird

I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.

If pro athletes and entertainers want to freelance as political pundits, then they should not be surprised when they're called out for insulting politicians.

We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.

I don't want to have anyone else as Prime Minister other than David Cameron, and if people spend their time thinking about some of this stuff, then they are getting in the way of two things: one, a fair, open, fact-based referendum debate; and two, the Conservative government continuing afterwards in a stable and secure fashion.

I don't know why someone would be dumb enough to challenge Donald Trump.

Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.

My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.

I don't think anyone in this country wants to hear anything about President Trump from below the waist, below the belt.