George Osborne Quotes
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I want to see families with lower energy bills.
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If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
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Britain can only spend what it can afford.
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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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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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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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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.
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Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
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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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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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I'm not going out to parties every night.
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I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
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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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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 believe in public services.
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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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Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.
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In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.
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Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.
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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.
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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.