George Osborne Quotes
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Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.
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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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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 think you can look at the British economy with confidence.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.
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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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It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
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Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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Autism is a very serious condition.
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I'm not going out to parties every night.
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We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
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It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.
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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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The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
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The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
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I think Britain can be one of the great success stories of the 21st century - we've got the talent, the drive, the connections around the world. But if we vote to Leave, then we lose control. We lose control of our economy, and if you lose control of your economy you lose control of everything. That's not a price worth paying.