David Cameron Quotes

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• I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
• At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we…
• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North…
• I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with…
• In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?…
• Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking…
• People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes…
• People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by…
• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the…
• The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its…
• The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not…
• There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this…
• 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…
• 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…
• You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face…
• 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made…
• After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the…
• Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and…
• Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets…
• From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to…

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