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

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" 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. "

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

" You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. "

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

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

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

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "