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If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.