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

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

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

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

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