George Osborne Quotes
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Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
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I want to see families with lower energy bills.
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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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Britain can only spend what it can afford.
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It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
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I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.
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I am a social liberal.
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I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
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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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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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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 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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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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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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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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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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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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If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
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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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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.