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" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "

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" If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down. "

" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "

" I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. "

" America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. "

" Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. "

" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "

" The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game. "

" Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. "

" When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. "

" Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer. "

" In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history. "

" Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion? "

" To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. "

" Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality. "

" You have to live in the future, not the past. "

" I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular. "

" The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. "

" We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years. "

" Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem. "

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" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "

" People believe in the power of education to change lives. "

" I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing. "

" There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. "

" I'm all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we've missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I've been pressing this since 1997. "

" Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. "

" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "

" I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am. "