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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. "

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

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

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

" 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. "

" I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. "

" 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. "

" Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. "

" I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. "

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

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

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

" Life is full of surprises. "

" I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. "