George Osborne Quotes

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

I get a lot of letters from people.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Autism is a very serious condition.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

I believe in public services.

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.