Alistair Darling quotes

“Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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“The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "Why Scotland should stay a partner in the United Kingdom". www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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“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.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "The worst of times for Alistair, but at least he's nobody's puppet" by William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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“We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "Railways in the fresh air", www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2004.

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“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.”
-- Alistair Darling

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“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

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“Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.

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“On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.”
-- Alistair Darling

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“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.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : "Alistair Darling: We were two hours from the cashpoints running dry", www.independent.co.uk. March 18, 2011.

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“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.”
-- Alistair Darling

Source : www.publications.parliament.uk. March 17, 2005.

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