Top 80 David Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race.”

— David Cameron

2. “It’s time we admitted that there’s more to life than money, and it’s time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB – general well-being.”

— David Cameron

3. “What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.”

— David Cameron

4. “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”

— David Cameron

5. “The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.”

— David Cameron

6. “We’re all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.”

— David Cameron

7. “I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I’ve never supported it. And I don’t think any Conservative government would have done it.”

— David Cameron

8. “Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world’s problems.”

— David Cameron

9. “We all say in our own lives that money isn’t everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn’t be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue.”

— David Cameron

10. “I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.”

— David Cameron

11. “We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.”

— David Cameron

12. “Now I know which came first – the chicken not the egg.”

— David Cameron

13. “I’m all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice.”

— David Cameron

14. “Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.”

— David Cameron

15. “It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.”

— David Cameron

16. “No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.”

— David Cameron

17. “There should be no means of communication which we cannot read.”

— David Cameron

18. “The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient.”

— David Cameron

19. “Because I’m a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.”

— David Cameron

20. “Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.”

— David Cameron

21. “There is not, in my view, a single European demos.”

— David Cameron

22. “We can’t afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.”

— David Cameron

23. “I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.”

— David Cameron

24. “Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.”

— David Cameron

25. “We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.”

— David Cameron

26. “Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.”

— David Cameron

27. “Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death – a true global hero.”

— David Cameron

28. “I mean UKIP, I mean it’s just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.”

— David Cameron

29. “It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.”

— David Cameron

30. “NCS – National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.”

— David Cameron

31. “Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it’s vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.”

— David Cameron

32. “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

33. “Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don’t really notice what people call me.”

— David Cameron

34. “We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.”

— David Cameron

35. “Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.”

— David Cameron

36. “It’s not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It’s unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.”

— David Cameron

37. “I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.”

— David Cameron

38. “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

39. “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

40. “The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.”

— David Cameron

41. “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

42. “The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.”

— David Cameron

43. “The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.”

— David Cameron

44. “I intend to end the something for nothing culture.”

— David Cameron

45. “When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair.”

— David Cameron

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

— David Cameron

47. “Government has the power to help improve well-being.”

— David Cameron

48. “Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks – those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need.”

— David Cameron

49. “I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.”

— David Cameron

50. “I think in any organisation it’s right to set out what you stand for, what you’re fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody – not just the rich.”

— David Cameron