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

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" What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? "

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

" You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. "

" The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

" 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. "

" I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. "

" I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. "

" I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. "

" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "

" 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. "

" I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. "

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

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

" Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. "

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