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It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
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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.
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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.
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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The right hon. and learned Member is the man who likes to say yes in Europe — Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels.
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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.
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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
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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.
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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.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.