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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Disunity costs votes. "

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "

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

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