I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

Of course I welcome all the normalization of monetary policy. I think monetary policy should be normal.

One of the main priorities of Russia's economic policy is to create conditions and form our own financial resources for economic modernisation.

I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of their currency will not be very effective in the long term.

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.