I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger it was fury.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

My dogs are more important than my family.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.