Politician Quotes

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

I've been through so many different political races.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.