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" The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. "

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" You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue. "

" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "

" When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively. "

" If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy. "

" God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here. "

" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "

" It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice. "

" The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. "

" One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence. "

" Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia. "

" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "

" I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "

" No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. "

" She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument. "

" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "

" A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household. "

" I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting. "

" Britain's destiny lies in Europe. "

" The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U. "

" This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy. "

Self-Confidence

" Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you. "

" You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day. "

" I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest. "

" I remember when we ignored Europe and we were totally committed to the Commonwealth and the former Empire, and thought imperial preference was the only thing which enabled us to survive, that was a mistake, and it's a similar mistake to feel Britain can't be a hugely successfully country - economically and in any other way - outside the E.U. "

" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "

" As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved. "

" I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well. "

" Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency. "

" There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid. "

" If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong. "