Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

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.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair

There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.