Vince Cable Quotes

I think the interesting thing about Windrush is that perhaps for the first time the public opinion has been ahead of the politicians in seeing that there is a terrible injustice here and it should not be allowed to pass.

[There is a] fundamental economic issue of whether any company which uses data from individuals to make money should pay the owner of that data for its use... The new oil is data. Data is the raw material which drives these firms and it is control of data which gives them an advantage over competitors

nostalgia for a world where passports were blue, faces were white and the map was coloured imperial pink

There is another word for that - masochism. It isn't illegal. I am told some people pay good money to indulge in it. But unlike masochists, the Brexit ideologues usually envisage someone else bearing the pain. And that pain will mainly be felt by young people who overwhelmingly voted to Remain.

In a Britain increasingly dominated by extremists and ideologues, I want us to fill the huge gap in the centre of British politics.

I love slightly dangerous things. High energy, edgy things. I learned to ski when I was 63, which is a bit hazardous. But I go off once a year to the place where the Russian mafia assemble in the Alps, and go out on the slopes. I've got into red runs. One of my unfulfilled life ambitions is to do serious black runs. So, you know, a bit of danger, a bit of speed.

On his central point, the £350m a week, this is a lie. He knows it is a lie and endlessly repeating it does not make it the truth.

No-one has come up with a plausible explanation about how leaving [the EU] will make us better off than we are inside. Nobody has come up with a plausible explanation about how this process can be managed in a way that does not cause enormous cost and enormous damage.

We are the party of remain. We believe membership of the EU is in our country's interest.

Growing inequality is linked to poor economic performance, greater instability, more social tension, insecurity and unhappiness.

We haven't yet heard about 'Brexit jihadis' but there is an undercurrent of violence in the language which is troubling.

The old have comprehensively shafted the young

[I am] struck by the heavily Remain sentiment in colleges and schools, and the heavily Brexit mood of church-hall meetings packed with retired people

Some of the brightest and most interesting people in British politics recently have been relatively old,

We must fight for the British public to have a final say on the government's deal with a chance to stay in the EU if the deal is not good enough. To achieve this, we will need to work with like-minded people in other parties.