George Osborne Quotes
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The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
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I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.
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Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
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I am a social liberal.
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Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
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Britain can only spend what it can afford.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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I can't imagine a God who would ever need to intercede in the daily travails of my life.
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We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
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I believe in public services.
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Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.
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Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
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The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.
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I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.
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The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
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Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.
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I'm not going out to parties every night.