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

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" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

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" My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Look, I am very competitive. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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