Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
LIZ TRUSSAs Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
More Liz Truss Quotes
-
-
I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
LIZ TRUSS -
We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
LIZ TRUSS -
In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
LIZ TRUSS -
When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
LIZ TRUSS -
Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
LIZ TRUSS -
We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
LIZ TRUSS -
But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
LIZ TRUSS -
Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
LIZ TRUSS -
I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
LIZ TRUSS -
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
LIZ TRUSS -
I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
LIZ TRUSS -
The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
LIZ TRUSS -
Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
LIZ TRUSS -
I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
LIZ TRUSS -
People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
LIZ TRUSS -
If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
LIZ TRUSS -
Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
LIZ TRUSS -
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
LIZ TRUSS -
Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
LIZ TRUSS -
I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
LIZ TRUSS -
Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
LIZ TRUSS -
When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
LIZ TRUSS -
What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
LIZ TRUSS -
They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
LIZ TRUSS -
Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
LIZ TRUSS -
Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
LIZ TRUSS