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If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

I think life is a gift from God and should be lived to the full and with purpose.

Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

I only know what I believe.

Look, I am very competitive.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

Enough of talking. It is time now to do.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics ... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

I am a pretty straight sort of guy.

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

We know the problems ... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

The class war is over.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest.

The British people are the boss.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

I think I made the wrong career choice

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

What matters is what works.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I think most people who have dealt with me, think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.