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.
Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
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.
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 have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.
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.
You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.
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.
Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
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.
I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
