Alistair Darling Quotes

#1. On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

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#2. The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

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#3. Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

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#4. Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

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#5. The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through, perhaps because it transpired that Mr Robertson believed that Scotland was 'a dark land' where 'homosexuals ruled the roost'.

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#6. We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

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#7. Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

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#8. The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

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#9. We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

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#10. As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

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

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#12. The economic times we are facing ... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

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