George Osborne Quotes
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We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.
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There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
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For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.
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[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.
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There are a lot of examples where people aren't getting the right information. We could do a lot more with credit card bills so people properly understand that if you pay off the minimum it could take you 41 years to pay off is that right.
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Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.
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I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.
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We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.
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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.
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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
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I very much support financial education in schools.
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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
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I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do not find a ready audience, of any large scale, for pulling up the shutters.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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I believe in public services.
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The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
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I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world.
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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.
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Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
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I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.
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What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.
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I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.
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