David Cameron Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.”

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

“Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.”

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

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

“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.”

“We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.”

“You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.”

“I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.”

“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? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?”