I.B. George Quotes

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

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.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't.

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

I grieve for every death.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

Politics should seize the imagination.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.