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As we have seen elsewhere, if interest rates are too low or negative, the hit to bank profitability could perversely reduce credit availability or even increase its overall price.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we do see economic difficulties, one of the ways we have to react to that is to make sure that our public finances and economy remain strong ... so I don't think it would be right to suspend the fiscal rules.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's no doubt in my mind these are going to be difficult economic times, if we do see economic difficulties, one of the ways we have to react to that is to make sure that our public finances and economy remain strong ... so I don't think it would be right to suspend the fiscal rules.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Go out and vote remain for a bigger, better Britain inside a reformed European Union.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As far as I'm concerned this referendum should settle the matter.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's very close; nobody knows what's going to happen.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think on Friday that businesses, wealth creators, job creators will think: Britain has made a decision, let's pile back into the economy and create jobs and opportunity because it's a great place to do business, as far as I'm concerned this referendum should settle the matter.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have lost a great star, she was a great campaigning MP with huge compassion, with a big heart. It is dreadful, dreadful news.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we vote In, I think there will be actually a wall of investment, companies that are responsible for employing people in this country and making things in this country will want to do more, employ more, make more ... if we vote out, it is a decade of uncertainty.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we wake up on June 24 and we are in, Britain's authority within the EU will be stronger, no other country has done what we have done, hold a renegotiation (for improved EU membership terms), hold a referendum and then people will know that the British agenda ... is going straight to the top.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And once the relevant permissions and U.N. Security Council resolution are in place, I will deploy a naval warship to the south-central Mediterranean to combat arms trafficking in the region, together these developments will help stabilize Libya, secure its coast and tackle the migration crisis.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We continue to work towards trying to get a good outcome for Tata in south Wales, the sales process is under way, there has been an encouraging number of serious offers coming through.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't think it would be a good future for steel.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
She has served our nation with such dignity, with such ability for so many years. I know the whole country and the whole House (of Commons) will want to join me in saying 'long may she reign over us'.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are going to be looking at corruption in sport and bringing forward new codes of practice that we will adopt in this country, we hope others will adopt, there is also the question about whether doping should be made a specific criminal offense which I think is something we should be looking at and debating in this house.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He'll be remembered as one of the all time great comedians.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am shocked and concerned by the events in Brussels. We will do everything we can to help, i will be chairing a COBRA meeting on the events in Brussels later this morning.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I would like to see the pro-European side get out there with a bit of passion and vigor and determination and stand up for what we believe - and what we believe not just as a matter of economic realism, but as a matter of political idealism.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't see us doing that, the thing about Scotch whisky is we're going to be in Scotland come what may.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We want to see a change in behavior from the Maldivian government to make sure that political prisoners are set free and yes we are prepared to consider targeted action against individuals if further progress isn't made.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If business backs my reforms ... I would argue get out there and support those things, the sooner you can start to look at your own businesses and come up with the examples and the ideas about the benefits and the problems that there are with Europe the more that you are able to help to explain and set the context for this vitally important question.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This strike is not necessary, it will be damaging, we will do everything we can to mitigate its effects but you cannot have a strike on this scale in our NHS without real difficulties for patients and potentially worse.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe that all these issues can be dealt with. The discussions are going well.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm confident with goodwill - and there is goodwill I think on all sides - we can bring these negotiations to a conclusion and then hold the referendum, i've been very heartened by the goodwill I've felt by fellow sister party members in the CSU here in Bavaria today.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's desperate stuff from an organization that really does do the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts, and people can see that again today, this is an organization that's losing territory, it's losing ground ... Britain will never be cowed by this sort of terrorism, our values are so much stronger than theirs. It may take a very long time but they will be defeated.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have seen at first-hand the devastation caused by flooding. And that's why this work to repair and improve flood defenses is so vital.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We still consider ourselves a second-class NATO member-state, because in central Europe... there aren't, aside from a token presence, any significant allied forces or defense installations, which gives the Russians an excuse to play this region.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let's have a look and see whether more needs to be done and whether the flood defenses need to made even higher than they are already, and that's exactly what we'll look at.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We’ve already lifted a number of barriers in our Armed Forces with the introduction of female submariners and women reaching the highest ranks in all Services, we should finish the job next year and open up ground combat roles to women.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want the European Union to be more competitive in terms of growth and jobs. I want Britain to stay in a refomed European Union, we need stronger cooperation in Europe on information sharing and passengers' name records.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These terrorists are plotting to kill us and to radicalize our children right now. They attack us because of who we are, not because of what we do, the question is this: do we work with our allies to degrade and destroy this threat, and do we go after these terrorists in their heartlands, from where they are plotting to kill British people, or do we sit back and wait for them to attack us?
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is not about whether we want to fight terrorism. It's about how best we do that.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The UK is already in the top tier of countries on the target list, if there is an attack on the UK in the coming weeks or months there will be those who try to say it's happened because of our air strikes.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is wrong for the United Kingdom to sub-contract its security to other countries, and to expect the aircrews of other nations to carry the burdens and the risks of striking ISIL in Syria to stop terrorism here in Britain.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As the murders on the streets of Paris remind us so starkly ISIL (Islamic State) is not some remote problem thousands of miles away, it is a direct threat to our security at home and abroad.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Now, more than ever, we must come together and stand united and carry on with the way of life that we know and that we love, this match is going ahead.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People want to know there is a whole plan for the future of Syria and the future of the region because it is perfectly right to say that a few extra bombs and missiles won't transform the situation, the faster we can degrade and destroy ISIL the safer we will be, but we will only be safe in the longer term if we can replace that ungoverned space ... with a proper Syrian government.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have always said I think that it is sensible that we should: ISIL don't recognize a border between Iraq and Syria and neither should we but I need to build the argument, I need to take it to parliament, I need to convince more people, we won't hold that vote unless we can see that parliament would endorse action because to fail on this would be damaging. It is not a question of damaging the government it is a question of not damaging our country and its reputation in the world.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have been aware of these cells operating in Syria that are radicalising people in our own countries, potentially sending people back to carry out attacks, our security and intelligence services have stopped something like seven attacks in the last six months albeit attacks planned on a smaller scale. That's one of the reasons we are strengthening the security and intelligence services.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have always said I think that it is sensible that we should, ISIL don't recognize a border between Iraq and Syria and neither should we but I need to build the argument, I need to take it to parliament, I need to convince more people, we won't hold that vote unless we can see that parliament would endorse action because to fail on this would be damaging, it is not a question of damaging the government it is a question of not damaging our country and its reputation in the world.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am determined to prioritise the resources we need to combat the terrorist threat because protecting the British people is my number one duty, this is a generational struggle that demands we provide more manpower to combat those who would destroy us and our values.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am determined to prioritize the resources we need to combat the terrorist threat because protecting the British people is my number one duty, this is a generational struggle that demands we provide more manpower to combat those who would destroy us and our values.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can boil down all of my negotiations to one word: flexibility. Is this organization flexible enough to make sure that countries inside the eurozone can grow and succeed, and countries outside the eurozone like Britain can find what they need as well, if it's flexible enough, we'll stay. If it's not flexible enough we'll have to ask ourselves a very profound question: is this organization for us?
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are working intensively together in the spirit of close cooperation and I'm immensely grateful for all the efforts the Egyptian authorities have made so far.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In terms of our review of the Muslim Brotherhood, which we discussed today, that will be published later this year and I think you will see, as you are already seeing in Britain, a much more robust approach against extremism, against extremism of all kinds, and against those extremists who stop just short of endorsing violence.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The stronger our relationship, the more able we are to have the necessary and frank discussions about other issues.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it's a real opportunity to deepen our relationship and I'm delighted President Xi is spending so much time here in the UK.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want British Muslims to know we will back them to stand against those who spread hate and to counter the narrative which says Muslims do not feel British, i want police to take more action against those who persecute others simply because of their religion.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our trade with Vietnam accounts for just 0.5 pct of the UK's total global trade and I think that indicates the enormous opportunity that there is, we want to go much, much further ... we believe there's much more to come.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
(IS's) methods of murder may be barbaric, but its methods of recruitment, propaganda and communication use the latest technology.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is also more work being done in terms of installing fencing not just around the port at Calais but also around the Eurostar and Eurotunnel entrance.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have been looking at whether we can put more personnel and indeed sniffer dog teams on that side of the channel to make a difference, there is also more work being done in terms of installing fencing not just around the port at Calais but also around the Eurostar and Eurotunnel entrance.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My priority is to reform the European Union to make it more competitive and address the concerns of the British people about our membership. The status quo is not good enough, what matters is that the European Union and its 28 members are flexible and imaginative enough to respond to these issues.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I'm getting lively about it, it's because I feel bloody lively.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm not going to talk about specific individuals, when there are people anywhere in the world who commit appalling and heinous crimes against British citizens, we will do everything we can with the police, with the security services, with all that we have at our disposal to find these people and put them out of action.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.
– Prime Minister David Cameron
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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