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.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

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.

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