Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" 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.' "

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

" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

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

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

" It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. "

" However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. "

" The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. "

" 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. "

" Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. "

" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "

" 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. "

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

" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "

" Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. "

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

" In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. "

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

" 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. "

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

" By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. "

" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "

" I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. "

" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "

" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "