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" And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. "

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" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

" So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister. "

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

" 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. "

" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

" I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular. "

" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "

" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "

" My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. "

" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "

" But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. "

" Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. "

" Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. "

" Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. "

" You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough. "

" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "

" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. "