
“The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.”
Source: Splitter
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
“The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.”
Source: Splitter
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”