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

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

" 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. "

" I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. "

" Life is full of surprises. "

" I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. "

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" The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. "

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

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

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

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

" Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth. "

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

" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "

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

" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "

" If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. "

" 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. "

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

" Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. "

" September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. "

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

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

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

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

" I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. "

" Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. "