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" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "

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" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "

" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "

" Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. "

" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "

" My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. "

" In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. "

" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "

" However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. "

" But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. "

" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

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" This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. "

" Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. "

" In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. "

" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. "

" And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. "

" My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' "

" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "

" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "

" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "

" When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place. "

" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "