Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

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.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.

Guard your children's free time - from you.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.