#it

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. ↗

— Vince Cable

#announce #balance #bank #british #business

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cannot #child #cooked #eat #eater

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#cold #comfort #farm #favorite #gibbons

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it? ↗

— Michael Cacoyannis

#hell #just #like #man #something

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#also #influence #interest #mill #movements

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #color #court #days #dread

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#anxiety #conviction #disabilities #due #education

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#attach #best #course #degree #himself