Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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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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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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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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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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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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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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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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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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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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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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People work hard.
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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.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
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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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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.