Political Suicide Can End A Career.

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.

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.

You're Lucky To Head A Coalition Government. I Am A Coalition Government On My Own.

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 Argument That Someone Is A Bad Man Is An Inadequate Argument For War And Certainly An Inadequate And Unacceptable Argument For Regime Change.