Vince Cable

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

— Vince Cable

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain…

— Vince Cable

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders…

— Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

— Vince Cable

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with…

— Vince Cable

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat…

— Vince Cable

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come…

— Vince Cable

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing…

— Vince Cable

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

— Vince Cable

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old…

— Vince Cable

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is…

— Vince Cable

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

— Vince Cable

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do…

— Vince Cable

Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people…

— Vince Cable

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than…

— Vince Cable

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment…

— Vince Cable

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

— Vince Cable

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the…

— Vince Cable

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he…

— Vince Cable

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible…

— Vince Cable

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

— Vince Cable

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are…

— Vince Cable

The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise…

— Vince Cable

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it…

— Vince Cable

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

— Vince Cable