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" I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. "

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" The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. "

" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "

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

" 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. "

" You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

" 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. "

" 'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. "

" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "

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

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

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

" It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. "

" I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. "

" If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. "

" Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. "

" When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. "

" Life is full of surprises. "

" The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. "

" Disunity costs votes. "