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David Cameron
148 quotes
“I am the heir to Blair.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to newspaper executives (3 October 2005), as quoted in "Horror as Cameron brandishes the B-word" by Andrew Pierce, in The Times (5 October 2005), page 9.
“I joined this party because I believe in freedom. We are the only party believing that if you give people freedom and responsibility, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger.”
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Recorded in: Speech to Conservative Party Conference (4 October 2005).
“I want you to come with me. We'll be tested, and challenged, but we'll never give up. We'll never turn back. So let the message go out from this conference, a modern compassionate Conservatism is right for our times, right for our party — and right for our country. If we go for it, if we seize it, if we fight for it with every ounce of passion, vigour and energy from now until the next election, nothing and no one can stop us.”
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Recorded in: Speech to Conservative Party Conference (4 October 2005).
“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.”
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Recorded in: BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast (21 October 2005).
“There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.”
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Recorded in: Speech after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest (6 December 2005).
“I want to talk about the future. He was the future once.”
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Recorded in: On the subject of Tony Blair at Prime Minister's Question Time (7 December 2005).
“We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.”
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Recorded in: Speech aimed at Liberal Democrats: join me in my mission (16 December 2005).
“I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.”
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Recorded in: BBC Sunday AM (15 January 2006).
“I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in The Daily Telegraph, (23 January 2006).
“Issues that once divided Conservatives from Liberal Democrats are now issues where we both agree. Our attitude to devolution and localisation of power. Iraq. The environment. I'm a liberal Conservative.”
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Recorded in: Letter to constituents in Dunfermline and West Fife by-election (7 February 2006).
“UKIP is sort of a bunch of ... fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, mostly.”
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Recorded in: Comment during a LBC phone-in programme, cited in "UKIP demands apology from Cameron" BBC News (4 April 2006).
“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.”
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Recorded in: Interview with Richard Bacon on XFM, 28 September 2006), as quoted in "Labour in shambles over leadership, says Cameron" in Western Mail (29 September 2006), p. 4.
“Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family life, we were banging on about Europe. As they worried about standards in thousands of secondary schools, we obsessed about a handful of more grammar schools. As rising expectations demanded a better NHS for everyone, we put our faith in opt-out for a few. While people wanted more than anything stability and low mortgage rates, the first thing we talked about was tax cuts.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth (1 October 2006), quoted in The Times (2 October 2006), p. 6.
“Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Look at me, think of Arnie Schwarzenegger – David Cameron talks tough as he heads into the hood" by Chris Ayres, in The Times (13 October 2007).
“When we were first told the extent of Ivan's disability I thought that we would suffer having to care for him but at least he would benefit from our care. Now as I look back I see that it was all the other way round. It was only him that ever really suffered and it was us — Sam, me, Nancy and Elwen — who gained more than I ever believed possible from having and loving such a wonderfully special and beautiful boy.”
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Recorded in: In a letter to activists after the death of his son (28 February 2009).
“Too many twits make a twat.”
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Recorded in: Expressing his views on Twitter during an interview on Absolute radio (29 July 2009), David Cameron says sorry for 'twat' comment during radio interview.
“I believe that secret corporate lobbying, like the expenses scandal, goes to the heart of why people are so fed up with politics. It arouses people's worst fears and suspicions about how our political system works, with money buying power, power fishing for money and a cosy club at the top making decisions in their own interest. We can't go on like this. I believe it's time we shone the light of transparency on lobbying in our country and forced our politics to come clean about who is buying power and influence.”
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Recorded in: Speech (8 February 2010), as cited in "David Cameron: Rebuilding trust in politics", Conservative Party website (8 February 2010).
“Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.”
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Recorded in: Speech (27 July 2010), as quoted in The Guardian.
“I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead and I believe deeply in public service, and I think the service our country needs right now is to face up to our really big challenges, to confront our problems, to take difficult decisions, to lead people through those difficult decisions so that together we can reach better times ahead.”
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“This is going to be hard and difficult work. The coalition will throw up all sorts of challenges, but I believe together we can provide that strong and stable government that our country needs, based on those values, rebuilding family, rebuilding community, above all, rebuilding responsibility in our country. Those are the things I care about, those are the things that this Government will now start work on doing. Thank you very much.”
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“Turkey is a secular and democratic state. This is all the more reason to make Turkey feel welcome in Europe... This is something I feel very strongly and very passionately about. Together I want us to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels.”
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Recorded in: Turkey must be welcome in EU, insists Cameron", The Independent (27 July 2010).
“I will remain your strongest possible advocate for EU membership and for greater influence at the top table of European diplomacy.”
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Recorded in: Turkey EU accession poses security risk - Michael Gove BBC News (27th July 2010).
“[I want to] pave the road [for Turkey to join the EU], the country is vital for our economy, vital for our security and vital for our diplomacy”
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Recorded in: David Cameron EU Question Time: PM attacks 'untrue' Leave claims BBC News (27 July 2010).
“Too many people thought ‘I’ve paid my taxes, the state will look after everything’. But citizenship isn’t a transaction – in which you put your taxes in and get your services out. It’s a relationship – you’re part of something bigger than you, and it matters what you think and feel and do. So to get out of the mess we’re in, changing the government is not enough. We need to change the way we think about ourselves, and our role in society. Your country needs you.”
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Recorded in: David Cameron's Conservative conference speech in full", The Telegraph, (6 October 2010).
“I think we should be helping the opposition groups because they want a democratic Libya, they want a future for that country.”
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Recorded in: William Hague suggests Libya rebel funding BBC News (13 April 2011)
“Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.”
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Recorded in: On the 2011 England riots, August, 2011. (Andrew Sparrow. "David Cameron: Police can use water cannon to control riots", The Guardian (10 August 2011).
“I do not believe there is a binary choice for Britain that we can either sacrifice the national interest on issue after issue or lose our influence at the heart of Europe's negotiating process. I am absolutely clear that it is possible to be a both a full, committed and influential member of the EU but to stay out of arrangements where they do not protect our interests.”
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Recorded in: EU veto: Cameron says he negotiated in 'good faith' BBC News (12 December 2011).
“This coalition has a clear new year's resolution: to kill off the health and safety culture for good.”
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Recorded in: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-i-will-kill-off-safety-culture-6285238.html, The Independent (5 January 2012).
“Democratic consent for the EU in Britain is now wafer thin... 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. That is why I am in favour of a referendum. I believe in confronting this issue - shaping it, leading the debate. Not simply hoping a difficult situation will go away.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Cameron speech: UK and the EU BBC News (23 January 2013).
“It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time to settle this European question in British politics. I say to the British people: this will be your decision.”
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Recorded in: David Cameron promises in/out referendum on EU BBC News (23 January 2013).
“When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in-or-out choice to stay in the EU on these new terms; or come out altogether. It will be an in/out referendum.”
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Recorded in: David Cameron promises in/out referendum on EU BBC News (23 January 2013).
“If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return”
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Recorded in: David Cameron promises in/out referendum on EU BBC News (23 January 2013).
“Referendum Bill passes first Commons stage, bringing us one step closer to giving the British people a say on Europe.”
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Recorded in: EU referendum: MPs call for public to have their say BBC News (5 July 2013).
“I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.”
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Recorded in: Speech: The internet and pornography: Prime Minister calls for action (22 July 2013).
“It’s wonderful news from St Mary’s Paddington, and I’m sure that right across the country, and indeed right across the Commonwealth, people will be celebrating and wishing the Royal couple well.”
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Recorded in: Remarks on the Royal birth (22 July 2013).
“It is an important moment in the life of our nation, and I suppose above all it is a wonderful moment for a warm and loving couple who have got a brand new baby boy.”
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Recorded in: Remarks on the Royal birth (22 July 2013).
“It’s been a remarkable few years for our Royal family - the Royal Wedding captured people’s hearts, the extraordinary and magnificent Jubilee and now this Royal birth. All to a family that has given this nation so much incredible service and they can know that a proud nation is celebrating with them a very proud, happy couple tonight.”
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Recorded in: Remarks on the Royal birth (22 July 2013).
“Already London is the biggest centre for Islamic finance outside the . But today our ambition is to go further still. Because I don’t just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western world. I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world.”
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Recorded in: Speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum in 2013 - "World Islamic Economic Forum: Prime Minister's speech" Gov.uk (29 October 2013).
“I know some people look at foreign companies investing in our businesses, financing our infrastructure or taking over our football clubs and ask – shouldn’t we do something to stop it? Well, let me tell you, the answer is “no.”
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Recorded in: Speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum in 2013 - "World Islamic Economic Forum: Prime Minister's speech" Gov.uk (29 October 2013).
“First, for years people have been talking about creating an Islamic bond – or – outside the Islamic world. But it’s just never quite happened. Changing that is a question of pragmatism and political will. And here in Britain we’ve got both. This government wants Britain to become the first sovereign outside the Islamic world to issue an Islamic bond.”
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Recorded in: Speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum in 2013 - "World Islamic Economic Forum: Prime Minister's speech" Gov.uk (29 October 2013).
“Gary Barlow has done a huge amount for the country, he’s raised money for charity, he’s done very well for Children in Need so I’m not sure, the OBE was in respect of that work and what he’s done but clearly what this scheme was was wrong and it’s right that they’re going to pay back the money.”
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Recorded in: On Good Morning Britain speaking about his view of tax avoidance schemes and if Gary Barlow should give back his OBE following claims that the singer took part in one - Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to Good Mornin…
“They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people... they boast of their brutality... they claim to do this in the name of Islam, that is nonsense, Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.”
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Recorded in: On ISIS; (14 September 2014).
“I care deeply about those who struggle to get by — but I believe the best thing to do is help them stand on their own two feet. And no, that’s not saying, "You're on your own," but, "We are on your side, helping you be all you can." And I believe in something for something; not something for nothing.”
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Recorded in: The Scarlet Z, for Zombie (Reaganite)" (15 August 2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online.
“We are the first party to have a female prime minister, we were the party of the first Jewish prime minister and I know one day, we are going to be the party of the first black or Asian prime minister.”
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Recorded in: Speech outlining plans to increase the number of minority ethnic Conservative MPs BBC News (25 April 2015).
“We are a shining example of a country where multiple identities work. Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British; where you can wear a kilt and a turban; where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies. Where you can support Man Utd, the Windies and Team GB at the same time. Of course, I’d rather you supported West Ham.”
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Recorded in: Speech in London, which caused derision as Cameron had previously claimed to support Aston Villa. Various sources including The Guardian (April 2015).
“Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband.”
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Recorded in: Tweet by @David_Cameron (3 May 2015).
“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'.”
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Recorded in: Planned speech to the National Security Council — Various sources (e.g. The Guardian, BBC) (13 May 2015).
“Islamic State (IS) is a perversion of the religion of Islam - a poisonous death cult that poses an existential threat.”
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Recorded in: Cameron is not asking the big question on Islamic State BBC News (2 July 2015).
“If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you.”
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Recorded in: Message to teenage Britons wanting to join ISIS — "David Cameron tells teenage jihadists they are 'cannon fodder'" by Tim Ross, The Telegraph (19 July 2015).
“[On the Calais crisis.] I accept that, because you have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain because Britain has got jobs, it's got a growing economy, it's an incredible place to live.”
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Recorded in: David Cameron criticised over migrant 'swarm' language BBC News (30 July 2015).