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" Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. "

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" I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. "

" I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. "

" People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. "

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" Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. "

" I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. "

" Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. "

" When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. "

" Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. "

" People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. "

" Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. "

" Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. "

" The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. "

" The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. "

" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "

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" Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. "

" You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. "

" I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. "

" It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time. "

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" The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. "

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" To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished. "