176 Quotes by George Osborne

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many. Everything in politics encourages more red tape - everyone insists government must step in - 'something must be done' is always the cry. We have to resist these pressures.

It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

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

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.