Quotes By George Osborne

Autism is a very serious condition.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

I'm not going out to parties every night.

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.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

It's perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

I believe in public services.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

I get a lot of letters from people.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.