22 Quotes by Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not have lost it.

already more severe than the rest of the country.