“I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to ”

“You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.”