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

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.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

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

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.