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" 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. "

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

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

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" Look, I am very competitive. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "

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

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" 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.' "

" Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

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

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

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

" My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. "

" In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. "

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

" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "

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