Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jacob Rees-Mogg - Page 2

Many foreign property owners work in the City of London and are encouraged to bring their expertise and earning power to this country because of the favourable capital tax environment. Attacking their property profit may encourage some to leave, but it would certainly deter others from coming in the first place.

Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

Supermarkets have contributed as much to increasing the standard of living in the United Kingdom as almost any government policy. They bring a level of convenience and quality that was unknown to previous generations at a highly competitive price because of their buying power.

Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on the altar of the E.U. superstate.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

Meeting someone does not mean you're endorsing them.

Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.

A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.

The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the High Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.

Overseas investors have a choice. They can buy property, equities, bonds, or a host of other assets either in the United Kingdom or abroad. Each decision will be taken depending on the available net return, that is, the profit after tax.

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.

The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

I would rather my constituents were warm and prosperous than cold and impoverished as we are overtaken by emerging markets who understandably put people before polar bears.

I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.

Obstacles to trade put up the cost both to consumers and businesses.

Proper British nannies put the child ahead of everything. They do not like to see children used as accessories, carried around in slings for the convenience of the parents' social life. They want a proper set-up, where the baby is rested and happy, not shown off to all-comers.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

If we say to the E.U. our backstop position is that we will be the vassal state, why should the E.U. make any effort to make any arrangement other than us to be a vassal state?

In an age of considerable bureaucratic burdens, a business knowing immediately that someone who has the relevant training is eligible to work in the United Kingdom is an important convenience and helps keep costs down.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a court, but this does not apply in continental countries.

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

A decision by the government to arm the rebels in Syria ought to be taken as carefully as one to commit British troops. It is akin to war, albeit by proxy, and must be treated with equal seriousness and meet the tests for a just war.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

I like some vegetables.

To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think, is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.

Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.

I went into investments out of interest and thought I knew a little. The longer I've been involved, the less I realise I'd known.

No one questions the right of individuals to go to the Central Lobby to explain their views to their own Member of Parliament. It is important for those in power to hear arguments in favour of policies from all sides and ought to lead to better decision-making.