I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Political suicide can end a career.
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.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.