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Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

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.

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

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

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

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

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

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

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