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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. "

" It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. "

" Disunity costs votes. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" My mother was the center of the family. "

" 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. "

" 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. "