Quotes by Vince Cable

Vince Cable

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

Miserable

Paper

Resignation

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 want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Breathing

Growth

Men

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, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

London

Office

Team

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, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

Class

Government

Political

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Government

Mean

Support

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

Fundamentals

Significant Change

Unlikely

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

Bits

Issues

Lefties

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 protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke ‘fat cats’ until they purr with pleasure. I’m completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

Cat

Cutting

Thinking

I don’t feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Luxury

Normal

Trying

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 to millions of Britain’s families – will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

Legacy

People

Years

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Air

Anger

Apology

Balance

Banking

Banking Crisis

Bits

Breathing

British

Cat

Children

Choices

Cities

Class

College

Competition

Conclusion

Country

Couple

Crow

Cutting

Debt

Economic

Economy Today

Environment

Expansion

Father

Feelings

Fundamentals

Gambling

Girl

Giving

Government

Greek

Growth

Happy Marriage

Home

House

Income

Iraq

Issues

Jobs

Kissing

Lefties

Legacy

London

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Quotes by Vince Cable

Vince Cable

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

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 want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

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, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

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, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

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

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

I don’t feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

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 to millions of Britain’s families – will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

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