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" Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. "

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" Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. "

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" 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. "

" I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. "

" The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. "

" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "

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" I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. "

" Life is full of surprises. "

" September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. "

" Disunity costs votes. "

" I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. "

" 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. "

" Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. "

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" Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. "

" The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. "

" Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. "

" When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. "

" Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. "

" Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. "

" I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "

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" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "

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" You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

" The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. "