QUOTES by George Osborne
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.
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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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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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Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
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I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
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I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.
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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'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
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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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Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
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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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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 mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.
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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
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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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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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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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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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The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.
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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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One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
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When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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