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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. "

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

" My mother was the center of the family. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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