What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today