19 Chancellor Quotes for You to Enjoy

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age. Jeanne Cooper

Age Through Perks Lines Being Use Standing Chancellor

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. Nigel Farage

Democracy Rest Abandon Telling Must Appalling Europe British Chancellor

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor. Helmut Schmidt

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. Alastair Campbell

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. George Osborne

Today Leadership News Morning Me Experience Thinking Lying Ruled One Morning Out Shadow Lay Had Himself Bed Item Closest Closest Thing Realised Interesting Turned Then Ever Thing Four Chancellor Programme

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. Edward Grey

Obligation Neutrality Whatever Entertain Could Also Effect Regards Either Interest Ask Us Bargain Belgium Away Chancellor

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support. Clive Anderson

You Yourself People Burden Rich Every Pocket Point Pound Support Greater Passing Than Escaping Person Just Clutch Rich Person Depriving Realize Poorer Your Even Keep Last Chancellor

I think that the Bayern coach is the second hardest job in Germany after the Chancellor. Jupp Heynckes

Job Think Germany After Coach Hardest Second Chancellor

One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr. Daniel Hannan

Work Good Waiting Cheese Clever Think Jimmy Way System One-Way Pursuit Headlines Massive Exemption Accountants Tax Hole Tax System Created Who Each Filled Starbucks Swiss Chancellor

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. Walter Ulbricht

Meetings Secret Would Federal Generals Knew Between Protest Foreign Passionately West German Planning Population Chancellor

They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard. Patrick Carman

Me Daughter Because Bumped Germany Skateboard Chancellor

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. Wolfgang Schauble

Work Finance Best Me Long Important Everything Negotiations Out Minister Stay Strongly Absent Council Long-Term Term Encouraged End Germany Did In The End Work Out Who European Chancellor Need

As Foreign Minister, I worked to strengthen the cooperation with Israel, and now, as Chancellor, I have more opportunities do this. Sebastian Kurz

Opportunities Minister More Foreign Israel Worked Cooperation Now Strengthen Chancellor

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations. Marek Belka

Change World Matter Will Believe Relations Our Neighbours Only Remain Could Poland Also Partners Within Becomes Germany Anything Union Who European European Union Strategic Chancellor

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Nigel Lawson

Seen Possible Minister Only Economic Economic Policy Between Prime Prime Minister Policy Conduct Successful Full Agreement Chancellor

The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with some French politicians decrying the 'selfish intransigence' in the euro crisis of Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel. Zanny Minton Beddoes