WHAT THEY SAID ON BREXIT:
"I will do everything I can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination" - Prime Minister David Cameron
"I believe the British people have spoken up for democracy in Britain and across Europe and I think we can be very proud of the result" - Leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson
"Basically, they took back their country. That's a great thing" - US presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
"Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day" - Ukip leader and leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage
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"As things stand, Scotland faces the prospect of being taken out of the EU against our will. I regard that as democratically unacceptable" - Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
"I think there has been a bit too much hyperbole. I'm not sure the political class has covered itself in glory in this and I suspect we have an electorate that is more confused than it needs to be" - Liberal Democrat former leader Lord Ashdown
"I feel so proud to be British this morning. The hectoring, the bullying, the scare stories failed to dent our resolve. #IndependenceDay. The task now is to unite the country, to move in a measured and phased way to a status that both Leavers and Remainers can accept" - Brexit-backing Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan
"People were given the impression they had no choice but to Remain, but they voted to Leave. It is incumbent on all of us to be very calm and remember our responsibility for the future of the United Kingdom, and work together to start a process, because this is simply the beginning of the process of initiating leaving the European Union. In the long run we will find that both Europe and the United Kingdom will emerge stronger as a result" - Leave chairwoman Gisela Stuart
"In those areas which are strongly perhaps white working-class there will be a strong vote for Out and that's something as a Government we need to respond to. Clearly, I think one of the features of this referendum are some of those social divisions and clearly as a Government, as a political class, all parties, we need to show that we're responding to that" - Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb
