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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Disunity costs votes. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

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

" Life is full of surprises. "

" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? "

" 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. "

" The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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