Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
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With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.