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" A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. "
Believe
Someone
Right
" Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. "
Middle East
Middle
Changes
" Disunity costs votes. "
Votes
Costs
" 'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. "
Makes
Right
Sales
" I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. "
Shred
Regret
Entering
" I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. "
Minister
Press
Court
" I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "
Stand
Nations
Genocide
" If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. "
Want
Opportunity
Need
" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "
People
Health
Sports
" If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. "
You
Time
Look
" I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. "
People
Job
House
" I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. "
Reading
Others
Me
" I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. "
Regret
Beginning
Me
" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "
Like
Very
Best
" I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. "
Lips
Moving
Tell
" I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. "
Memoirs
Long
Write
" I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most. "
Most
Ways
Than
" In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. "
Wrong
Housing
Opinion
" I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. "
Union
Edge
Nations
" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "
Ability
Mistake
See
" I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. "
Need
War
Think
" I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. "
Think
Back
Get
" I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. "
Thought
Conservative
Different
" It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. "
Family
Respect
Time
" I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. "
European
Community
Want
" Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. "
Turn
British
Inventions
" Life is full of surprises. "
Surprises
Full
Life
" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "
Mother
Father
Late
" My mother was the center of the family. "
Center
Mother
Family
" Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. "
Politics
My Own
Regret
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