The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

- Norman Lamont

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

- Norman Lamont

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

- Norman Lamont

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

- Norman Lamont

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

- Norman Lamont

What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.

- Norman Lamont