“Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cri...” — Philip Hammond Quote

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

There is often hypocrisy in our obsession with language. Many people use the 'right' language but still see me as a cripple, if you see what I mean.