You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

The class war is over.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.