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"...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early"
"We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state."
"I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him."
"[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."
"The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that."
"Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?"
"Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential"
"Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth."
"Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s."
"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."
"We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech."
"I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows."
"I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers."
"It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country."
"Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care"
"I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European."
"...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely."
"I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn."
"In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people."
"I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be."