Gordon Brown Quotes

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.

I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Apparently there are not a whole lot of people there that have confidence. They are willing, apparently, to believe that Donald Trump's been lying to 'em all along, while, if you want to characterize it this way, how many years have they been lying to voters about their intentions on repealing and replacing Obamacare?

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

Obamacare is his. The stimulus is his. The economy is his. And yet Barack Obama still treats it as though it's being run by others and he's still fighting them and he's running into obstacles.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.

I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.