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" A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. "

" 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. "

" Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. "

" Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. "

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

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

" Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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