Vince Cable Quotes

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• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
• Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We…
• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster,…
• Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that,…
• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental…
• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose.…
• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy…
• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and…
• I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me…
• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a…
• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps…
• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model…
• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which…
• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means…
• My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in…
• No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years,…
• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back…
• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No…
• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly…

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