I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.
John Redwood 06/2003
Category: What is Government
Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
Ludwig Erhard
Category: Competition
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
John Redwood 1999
Category: Constitution
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Denis Healey 20/10/1976
Category: Inflation, Unemployment
It's too bad the French don't have a word for entrepreneur.
George W Bush 26/05/2002
To one of his aides on his first-ever visit to France
Category: Quote of the Day, Foot in Mouth, France
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.
Tony Benn 1974
Category: Subsidy, Nationalisation
I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
After the Ecclestone affair.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
Politically there is no record of the continuance of political freedoms when economic freedoms have died.
Rhodes Boyson
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you and a waste of time when people don't agree with you.
Ken Livingstone 03/2003
Category: Conviction
She was defeated by a collection of 'has beens', 'thought they should have beens', and 'not worth a row of beans'!
Jacques Arnold
On Margaret Thatcher's fall from power.
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
A Conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
Category: Conservatives are...
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
Category: Conservatives are...
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
Category: Free Speech
You can have all the ambitions in the world, but if you don't have the money to carry them out then they're just so much pipe smoke.
Helen Liddell 2001
Category: Ambition
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King 1963
Category: Justice & Sentencing
Gracious...I haven't paid my bill. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
Margaret Thatcher 05/2001
Category: 2001 General Election
The most vital issue in British politics today is whether we really exist to serve the state or whether the state exists to serve us.
Brian Walden 1978
Category: State, The
I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
Geri Halliwell 2001
Category: Tony Blair (quotes about)
