George Osborne Thinking Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

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