[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.

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.

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

I love objectivity when mine.

I believe that tomorrow never exist, until we make a day called today.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

One does not make revolutions by halves.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.