George Osborne
I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
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 would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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.
Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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 get a lot of letters from people.
I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
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 want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
If the country's poorer, it's got less money.
I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.
We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.
Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats.
Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.
To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.
Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.
The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.
I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.
Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.
I am a social liberal.
I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.
Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.Collection: Government
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.Collection: People
The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.Collection: Country
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.Collection: Hard Work
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.Collection: Target
We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.Collection: Economy
Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.Collection: Numbers
What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.Collection: Hard Work
I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do not find a ready audience, of any large scale, for pulling up the shutters.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Country