Ed Balls Quotes

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

The national deficit is not rising.

It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste.

If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.