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" Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. "

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" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "

" The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. "

" Look, I am very competitive. "

" 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. "

" 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 may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "

" Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. "

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

" Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. "

Do The Right Thing

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

" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "

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

" 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.' "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

" 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. "

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

Nuclear Weapons

" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "