I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

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.

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.

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.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.