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" I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most. "

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

" What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? "

" 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. "

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

" In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. "

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

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

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

" The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. "

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

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

" Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

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