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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Life is full of surprises. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. "

" I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

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

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

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

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

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