I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

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.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?