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.

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.

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

The obvious is always least understood.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.