Ed Balls famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Cooking #Goes On #Want
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

#Government #London #Next
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

#Thinking #Ideas #Masters
The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
-- Ed Balls

#Years #Lasts #Assuming
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

#Cheer #Thinking #Responsible
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
-- Ed Balls

#Running #War #Men
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

#Strong #Party #Gold
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

#Thinking #Years #People
For the first time I'm free to be myself.
-- Ed Balls

#Firsts #First Time
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
-- Ed Balls

#Running #Phones #Batteries
The national deficit is not rising.
-- Ed Balls

#Rising #Deficit

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