Vince Cable Quotes

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.