We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

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.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.