Quotes About Ed Balls

#1. Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

Michael Gove

#2. The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Iain Duncan Smith

#3. Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

Nicola Sturgeon

#4. In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

Ed Balls

#5. You practice with wet balls all the time.

Ed Cunningham

#6. I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Ed Balls

#7. Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Ed Balls

#8. What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

Ed Balls

#9. I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Edward Abbey

#10. I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

Ed Balls

#11. The national deficit is not rising.

Ed Balls

#12. It's not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

Don Yaeger

#13. The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

Ed Balls

#14. You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

Ed Balls

#15. I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Ed Balls

#16. I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

Ed Balls

#17. It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

Ed Balls

#18. I was surprised," I said, "to find someone here with you. I'd rather you existed only when I was around.

Amber Dermont

#19. The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

Ed Palubinskas

#20. My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Ed Balls

#21. A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

Ed Palubinskas

#22. A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

#23. I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Ed Balls

#24. Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.

Ed Balls

#25. I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

Ed Balls

#26. For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Ed Balls

#27. We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

Ed Balls

#28. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. Somerset Maugham