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" In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. "

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" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

" I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular. "

" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "

" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "

" Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. "

" Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' "

" However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. "

" So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister. "

" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "

" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

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" Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do. "

" What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. "

" The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. "

" By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. "

" You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. "

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

" It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. "

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "

" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "

" But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. "

" I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. "