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49 quotes by Vince Cable

Cable's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 18 January 2009 Problems playing this file? See media help. John Vincent "Vince" Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills...
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not... →

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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt... →

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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and... →

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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in... →

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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... →

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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector... →

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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily... →

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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my... →

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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... →

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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in... →

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