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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Disunity costs votes. "

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

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

" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Life is full of surprises. "

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

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

" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

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

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

" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "