In case you missed them, here are all the quotes that have appeared in publicservice.co.uk's 'The things they say' section (and some that never made it).

In two years, this Prime Minister has gone from David Cameron to David Brent.

Labour leader Ed Miliband in response to the Queen's Speech

15 May 2012

Ken Livingstone... pays less tax than the person who cleans his office.

David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions

10 May 2012

Half of children in single parent families are already living in poverty. Horrifyingly, this report shows that some of these will lose up to £2,000 a year by 2014 because of planned changes to the tax and benefits system. This will mean serious hardship for many thousands of children. These families are the most vulnerable; it cannot be right to make them bear the biggest burden.

Fiona Weir, chief executive, Gingerbread

18 April 2012

I can't remember the last time I bought a pasty in Greggs.

Chancellor George Osborne

4 April 2012

I don’t mean to be cruel but I don’t think you can do the job. You fail to ­inspire. You’re making it hard for anyone to vote Labour. People need to be inspired by their leader.

Life-long Labour supporter to Ed Miliband on BBC Radio 5 Live

29 March 2012

Language that denigrates the elderly should be deemed as unacceptable as racist or sexist language

Commission on Improving Dignity in Care for Older People

8 March 2012

Europe needs to be more confident in its Christianity.

Conservative party chair Baroness Warsi speaking at the Vatican

1 March 2012

I am not convinced most voters know what the word ‘capitalism’ means so we need to stop using it and maybe say ‘big business’ instead.

Hackney councillor Luke Akehurst, a constituency representative on Labour’s NEC

9 February 2012

I don’t think that every pound of money spent under the last government was spent as wisely as it could have been.

Labour's Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury

20 January 2012

I suppose when I got into politics I was always called the old Etonian David Cameron. People know who I am. I'm not trying to rewrite my background. I went to a fantastic school; I adored my parents.

The Prime Minister saying he is comfortable with his background

17 January 2012

This Monty Python, are you sure he is one of ours?

Margaret Thatcher as quoted by Maldon MP John Whittingdale who had worked hard to persuade her to include the famous 'dead parrot' sketch in a speech that would attack the Liberal Democrats. His reply was 'Yes of course Prime Minister'

12 January 2012

Although inflation currently remains at elevated levels, the rising cost of living is expected to slow from the start of next year as the effect of the VAT rise in January and of previous steep increases in import prices fall out of the headline rate. Indeed, the annual rate of inflation excluding the impact of indirect tax changes, like VAT, was 3.4 per cent in November. The Bank of England’s November Inflation Report forecasts predict that consumer price inflation will fall well below their central target rate of 2 per cent by the end of 2012, and Cebr expectations are of the rate to remain around that level through 2013.

Economists hinting that there might be some good news for the coalition before the next election (another economist has suggested that inflation could be not much more than 1 per cent by 2015)

5 January 2012

Obama doesn't want his strongest European ally led by a right wing nationalist, he wants them to be a key player inside Europe and he'll start looking at whoever is in Germany or France if we start being isolationist.

publicservice.co.uk reporting Ken Clarke nearly three years ago suggesting that David Cameron needs to be careful about isolating Britain in the European Union

19 December 2011

It seems obscure to us that any council would propose hitting the public in the pocket when ordinary people are already finding it difficult to make ends meet.

Cllr Peter Reeve, UKIP's local government spokesman, seemingly finding it hard to believe that any council would ever consider making life harder for people than it already is

12 December 2011

The taxpayer is nowhere near recouping the cost of the extraordinary support extended to the banking industry throughout the crisis (for example, the billions forfeited to recapitalize Lloyds and RBS), and this ignores the substantial on-going cost of financing these initiatives (which the NAO estimate to be approximately £5bn per year). The revenue raised from the bank levy (£2.5bn) will be a drop in the ocean compared to these costs, particularly given the cuts in corporation tax. Furthermore, despite the output that the UK lost as a result of the banking crisis, the financial services industry will still be able to offset losses incurred during the crisis against their future tax liabilities, and so reduce their future tax bills!

Lydia Prieg, finance and business researcher, New Economics Foundation

8 December 2011