“In my constituency in Lancashire, there is a large rural community: pa...” — Lindsay Hoyle Quote

“In my constituency in Lancashire, there is a large rural community: parents need to get children to school and farmers must move around the area. Any increase in the cost of a tank of petrol must be funded from their static household budgets.”

“This was an unhappy place to work. I think there has been bullying in parliament. I've never shied away from that.”

“In times of crisis we must all find new ways of working - just as we did after the great fire and when the palace was bombed during the Second World War.”

“It takes a lot to silence the House of Commons.”

“I want to make sure that I do my public service right and it's the ethos that I inherited from him to look after people, to serve people and do my best for the community that I represent. I learnt a lot from my father.”

“I have been a rugby league fan all my life - I think it's an absolutely fantastic sport - so it is a real honour to be asked to be RFL president.”

“Film budgets are huge. They can afford to promote each and every song in their album.”

“I keep getting many offers for TV soap operas, and strangely a lot of them are mythological. None seem to be interesting enough or have the budgets that would convince me to accept them.”

“In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.”

“Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and I could not ask Nebraskans to pay for poor governance elsewhere.”

“I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels.”

“European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.”