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

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.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

Leadership is based on complex phenomena.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.