We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.