We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

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.

Don't expect anything except yourself.

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.