George Osborne Quotes
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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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The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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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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I want to see families with lower energy bills.
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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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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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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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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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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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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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Britain can only spend what it can afford.
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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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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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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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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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The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.
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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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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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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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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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You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.