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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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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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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People work hard.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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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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With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
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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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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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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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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.