It wouldn't be right for me to try and anticipate those numbers, a lot can happen over the coming years, and these forecasts move around, so that's why I think you want a reasonably comfortable margin in delivering the surplus. George Osborne More Quotes by George Osborne More Quotes From George Osborne Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. George Osborne printing-money lasts government 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. George Osborne numbers might people You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away. George Osborne mean people years I very much support financial education in schools. George Osborne financial-education support school 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. George Osborne government hard-work people Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets. George Osborne misery people looks I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair. George Osborne strong people thinking 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. George Osborne office country thinking Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. George Osborne cutting christmas should A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. George Osborne whole-life states should We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. George Osborne tax-evasion target pay Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more. George Osborne economy growing world Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. George Osborne investing saving people 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. George Osborne law country thinking 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. George Osborne rich balance thinking I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world. George Osborne order country thinking 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. George Osborne benches party men If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. George Osborne spending growth government Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. George Osborne debt contribution our-society I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe. George Osborne chinese europe thinking
