Andrew Mitchell Quotations

With the national average petrol price at a record high, the Reserve Bank will not touch interest rates.

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

Shareholders will not be happy with anything close to the current offer.

She transformed the face of Britain, ended our decline and set the parameters for 25 years of economic success.

No one knows that, including David, apart from two people in his campaign team,

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

I have a liking for totally unaffordable 1950s sports cars.

Jennifer always plays hard. But tonight she stayed focused for 40 minutes. Any time she does that she can put up those type of numbers.

Over the long term some form of consolidation seems very likely. Most exchange managers think it is the way to go.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

The pickup in construction of new homes is good news for the Australian building industry, pointing to firmer activity ahead.

Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

This will be our biggest marketing expense of the year.

We've been playing well enough to win all year. We know we can play with everybody. We've only been blown out a couple of times.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

This is the second consecutive gain in annual terms after falling for 19 consecutive months, which is very encouraging.

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.

David Davis has the experience, the toughness required to lead the party back into government,

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

It's cool. There are TVs everywhere and what guy wouldn't want that? The food's pretty good and the prices aren't bad.

It seems almost unfathomable that in the midst of a resources boom and with the terms of trade at 32-year highs that Australia has recorded a record trade deficit.

The larger exchanges are certainly focusing on some of the potential large partners . . . but the big exchanges aren't ignoring smaller partnerships. No one can be certain how things will pan out, so it would be unwise not to look at other possible avenues.

The cost to the industry to meet these wildly excessive regulations is likely to exceed $100 million.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

Before the game we felt confident that this would be a starting point of some kind. Right now we don't know what that will be, but we liked what we did tonight.

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

The high price of petrol continues to play on consumers' minds. Shareholders have cause to be less joyous about the value of their savings. This strengthens the Reserve Bank's case to stay on the interest-rate sidelines.

All of these events are coming together, and it bodes for a very serious and troubling time for the residents of the East End.

And if and when he launches, David will fight a strong campaign... and I'm confident that when he has put his case he will be successful.