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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

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Loss, Gambling, Years

"The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

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Kissing, Government, Giving

"Labour's bank rescue plan has failed, opposition tells Darling" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2009.

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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

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Party, Mean, Humility

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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

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Jobs, Lying, Oil

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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

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People, Boss, Upset

"Liberal Democrat Conference: Vince Cable Speech in Full". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

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Believe, Government, Roles

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The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

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Past, House, Transformation

Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.

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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

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Issues, Lefties, Bits

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You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

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Party, Winning, Government

"Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.

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Vegetables, Shopping, Wife

"What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

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Children, Vegetables, British

"What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

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War, Two, Iraq

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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

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Economy Today, Growth, Balance

"Vince Cable reveals £1bn backing for business bank to help small firms" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

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Years, People, Legacy

Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

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Luxury, Trying, Normal

"Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

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Men, Breathing, Growth

"Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

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Jobs, Risk, Say Anything

"Cable Refuses to Back Knighthood for Tory Hedge Fund Millionaire Who Made Money From Fall of Northern Rock". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 31, 2011.

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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

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Running, Choices, House

"What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

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School, Long, Expansion

"Vincent Cable: Confiscating Savings From the Poor Is Stupid and Cruel". www.independent.co.uk. January 08, 2009.

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The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

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Party, Cities, Rural Areas

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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

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Paper, Miserable, Resignation

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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

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Years, Youth, Worship

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The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.

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Government, Issues, Feelings

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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

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Government, Class, Political

Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

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Abuse, Entity, Corporate

"We'll hunt down the tax avoiders" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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