David Cameron
What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.Collection: Austerity
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Cancer
I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Gdp
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.Collection: Law
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.Collection: Leader
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.Collection: Wife
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Country
If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Past
I intend to end the something for nothing cultureCollection: Culture
The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.Collection: Economic History
Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.Collection: Iraq
It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.Collection: Country
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.Collection: People
There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.Collection: States
It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.Collection: Country
I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.Collection: Stars
An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.Collection: Country
It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.Collection: Mean
Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.Collection: Winning
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.Collection: Spring
At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.Collection: Heart
Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.Collection: Eggs
I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s 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.Collection: Children
Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.Collection: People
The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.Collection: Ideas
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world. To advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets. And to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.Collection: Strong
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 needCollection: Growth
The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.Collection: Freedom
The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficientCollection: Europe
...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.Collection: Country
I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible. And I hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible because of course while we're leaving the European Union, we mustn't be turning our backs on Europe.Collection: Europe
It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: School
We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.Collection: Party
I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.Collection: Conservative
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.Collection: People
We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.Collection: Life
Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.Collection: Novices
The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.Collection: Country
What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.Collection: Thinking
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.Collection: Fans
Cap the well, yes, clear up the mess, yes, make compensation, yes absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that would be right.Collection: Thinking
Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.Collection: Military
We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.Collection: Challenges
People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.Collection: Country