David Cameron Quotes - Page 6

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair.

The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

The news that Osama Bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen - for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.