"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes." ― Tony Blair Topic(s): Imagination Tags: leadership More From Tony Blair "Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war." "My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform." "The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It’s not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically." More In Imagination "And here’s the fact: the fact is it doesn’t solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, ‘Look, every penny you make next year the government’s going to take it from you,’ it still doesn’t solve the debt."― Marco Rubio "You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."― Peter Shaffer "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."― Henry David Thoreau