David Cameron Quotes

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

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

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.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

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

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

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

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

Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path to ensuring that when the question is finally put - and at some stage it will have to be - it is much more likely that the British people will reject the EU.

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

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.

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

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

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

It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.