David Cameron

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ”

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. ”

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. ”

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. ”

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 America. ”

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

I was the future once. ”

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed. ”

More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs. ”

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