George Osborne Quotes
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We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.
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Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.
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I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
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I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.
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We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
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Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.
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What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.
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When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
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The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.
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Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy.
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If the country's poorer, it's got less money.
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I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
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If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
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We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.
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I want London to be the global sporting capital.
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I will listen to any argument put to me.
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There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
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It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.