Top 28 Quotes About Ed Balls
#1. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
W. Somerset Maugham
#2. 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
#3. For the first time I'm free to be myself.
Ed Balls
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.
Michael Gove
#11. My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
Ed Balls
#12. The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.
Ed Palubinskas
#13. I was surprised," I said, "to find someone here with you. I'd rather you existed only when I was around.
Amber Dermont
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
Ed Balls
#20. It's not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.
Don Yaeger
#21. The national deficit is not rising.
Ed Balls
#22. 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
#23. I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Edward Abbey
#24. 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
#25. Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
Ed Balls
#26. 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
#28. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top