Latest David Cameron Quotes from Interviews

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• If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Trump, Britain

• The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

  David Cameron

  Mind, Lasts, Done

  FaceBook post by David Cameron from Jul 13, 2016

• I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

  David Cameron

  Mean, Ukip, Fruitcake

  "Nigel Farage to stand down as UKIP leader again". "AM" with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. July 5, 2016.

• Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Want, Should

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

• An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.

  David Cameron

  Country, Real, Play

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.

  David Cameron

  Keys, Europe, Inward

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24,2016.

• The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

  David Cameron

  Different, Body, Unions

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.

  David Cameron

  Country, Lying, World

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path to ensuring that when the question is finally put - and at some stage it will have to be - it is much more likely that the British people will reject the EU.

  David Cameron

  People, Choices, Asking

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

  David Cameron

  Real, Accountability, Legitimacy

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. Jnauary 2013.

• Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

  David Cameron

  Arrangements, Eurozone

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.

  David Cameron

  Country, Integrity, Doctors

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

  David Cameron

  Views, Needs, Roles

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

• Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.

  David Cameron

  Military, Diversity, Trying

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

• The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

  David Cameron

  Able, Speed, Rigidity

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission.

  David Cameron

  Shopping, Europe, People

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

• At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

  David Cameron

  Heart, Unions, Britain

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

• I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

  David Cameron

  Unions, Want, Britain

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

• Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

  David Cameron

  Regulation, Plague, Phenomenon

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

• Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

  David Cameron

  Country, Independence, Faces

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

• Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution. And in Europe's darkest hour, we helped keep the flame of liberty alight. Across the continent, in silent cemeteries, lie the hundreds of thousands of British servicemen who gave their lives for Europe's freedom.

  David Cameron

  Lying, Unique, Years

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

• I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Character, Independent

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

  David Cameron

  Winning, Unions, Today

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

• I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible. And I hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible because of course while we're leaving the European Union, we mustn't be turning our backs on Europe.

  David Cameron

  Europe, Leaving, Unions

  "EU Leaders Deliver Tough Message To David Cameron At Post-Brexit Summit". "All Things Considered" with Eleanor Beardsley, www.npr.org. June 28, 2916.

• It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

  David Cameron

  Country, Fighting, Europe

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.