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

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" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "

" I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Look, I am very competitive. "

" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. "

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

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

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

" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "