There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

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 wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.

Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.

Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.