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.

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 sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.

You are such a drama llama!" she shouted at her mother. The redhead blinked. "It's drama queen, dear." "No, it's llama...

Lust and love. They both put a fire in your damn shorts.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.