List of Vince Cable Quotes

Now The Main Areas Of Higher Education That Still Enjoy Considerable Financial Support From Government Are Subjects Like Engineering And Science And The Research Ringfence Which Is The Basic Minimum To Protect Britain's Scientific Competitiveness.

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, And They Sink Without Trace, And I Get Very Frustrated. Every Party Conference I Really Work On The Speeches, And I Always Have Two Or Three Things I'm Quite Proud Of, And No One Ever Remembers Them.

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 Explosive But If He Taught Me One Thing It Was To Air My Views.

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 Was Flawed. It Led To The Highest Level Of Household Debt In Relation To Income In The World.

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 I'm Not. I Offset It By Doing The Ironing, Though. She Has A Small Farm In The New Forest With A Herd Of Cattle, So She Serves Up A Steak And Kidney Pie Made With Her Own Beef.

The Degree Of Leverage Now Being Reversed Is On A Staggering Scale, And The Underlying Global Imbalances – Notably Between The Savers And The Spenders – Will Require Long And Painful Adjustment.

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.

So I Went Into Government With A Clear Mind About What The Problems Were, And What Needed To Be Done.

In My Job I Meet Many Outstanding, World Class, British Based Companies. But We Need More Companies And More Jobs In The Companies We Have.

I've Always Been Comfortable Working With Women And I've Had Two Happy Marriages. Draw What Conclusions You Like From That.

Small- And Medium-sized Businesses Need Access To A Diverse Range Of Finance Options, Including Non-bank Lending. These New Forms Of Finance Are Still Small In Scale Today But They Should, Over Time, Bring Additional Choice And Greater Competition To The Lending Market.

On Banks, I Make No Apology For Attacking Spivs And Gamblers Who Did More Harm To The British Economy Than Bob Crow Could Achieve In His Wildest Trotskyite Fantasies, While Paying Themselves Outrageous Bonuses Underwritten By The Taxpayer. There Is Much Public Anger About Banks And It Is Well Deserved.