George Osborne Quotes
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We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.
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Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.
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I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
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I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.
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The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
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Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
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I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
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What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.
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I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
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The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.
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Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
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We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.
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If the country's poorer, it's got less money.
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There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
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One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.
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It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.
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We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.