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

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

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

" 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. "

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

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

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

" I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Disunity costs votes. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Life is full of surprises. "

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

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