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

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

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

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

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.