Quotes By George Osborne

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

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

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

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.

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.

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

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.