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 get a lot of letters from people.
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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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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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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.
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The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
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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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Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy.
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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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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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I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
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It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.
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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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I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.
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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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I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
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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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The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.
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The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'
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There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
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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.