Downing Quotations

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.