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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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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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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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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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.
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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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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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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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Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
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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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People work hard.
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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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If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
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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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We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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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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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.