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" When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. "

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" If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends. "

" When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. "

" Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet. "

" The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people. "

" We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives. "

" We spend more on cows than the poor. "

" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "

" It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present. "

" I've got a job to do. "

" I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am. "

" To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. "

" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "

" I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. "

" We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another. "

" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "

" I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support. "

" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "

" If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down. "

" I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing. "

" Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.' "

" What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas. "

" I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. "

" I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation. "

" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "

" I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. "

" It is not a mistake to want power. "

" We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing. "

" There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. "

" If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference. "

" People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world. "