I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

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.

Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating.

When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

How noiseless falls the foot of time!