Logo
Quote by Vince Cable
You cant win with some people. If youre not in government, youre c

You cant win with some people. If youre not in government, youre criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, youre criticised for wanting power. Thats the Labour partys line of attack, and its a bit ridiculous. – Vince Cable

Other quotes by Vince Cable

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britains scientific competitiveness. – Vince Cable

Category:
Education
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered old college environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls. – Vince Cable

Category:
Politics
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix. – Vince Cable

Category:
Experience
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. – James Reston

Category:
Government

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. – Felix G. Rohatyn, New York Times, 3 June 1987

Category:
Government

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you. – Muqtada al Sadr

Category:
Government

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. – Milton Friedman

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

I have enough music coming out of my kids bedrooms when Im at home. – Rod Stewart

Category:
Home

A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. – M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976

Category:
Baseball

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck

Category:
Freedom

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

Category:
Humor