Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Truss
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Liz Truss.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.
I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It's absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.
Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - 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.
When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
Let's cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.
I think we've got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and... the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance.
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.
I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.
All of my parents' friends worked in public sector jobs. The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It's now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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.
In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that's a great thing.
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.
Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.
I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
I want people to buy British because it's the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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.
I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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.
I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
We don't know what's around the corner - and we must do everything to ensure we get our country's debts down, building our resilience so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US - the world wants what Britain has to sell.
I'm proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May's Brexit plans.
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.
I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.
Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest. People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that's human.
If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is. I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There's no sense of purpose.
I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, 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.
I have to admit I don't like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
We're trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries, the fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
I feel I'm fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it's expensive. When we've looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it's just been impossible. You just cannot get one.
I admire Peter Mandleson's chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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