The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.