David Cameron Quotes

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'