[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

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

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

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.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.