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"I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics."
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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."

"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."

"I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama's government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it."
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"Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries."

"I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change."

"My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq."

"The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it."

"I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate."

"The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country."

"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."

"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power."
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