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

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.

Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?