The Journey (III) (2016)

Toby Stephens: Tony Blair

Quotes 

• Harry Patterson : You feel the hand of history on your shoulder?

  Tony Blair : Around my throat more like. It's like looking at the promised land with the wrong end of a telescope.

• Harry Patterson : This time is the first time I really felt yes, there is a chance, we can do this.

  Tony Blair : Do you say this to all the prime ministers?

  Harry Patterson : Of course. Only this time I mean it.

  Tony Blair : Why now?

  Harry Patterson : Oh, because... young men fight for the hell of it, but old men care about their legacy.

• Tony Blair : What?

  Harry Patterson : Shut his eyes as soon as he got in. Been like that for the last ten minutes.

  Tony Blair : Oh, bloody hell!

  Harry Patterson : He's eighty one. And he hasn't been well.

  Tony Blair : Thatcher operated on four hours sleep and a pact with the devil, Paisley has the energy of ten men half his age. This is just his way of not engaging. Wake him up.