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" Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich. "
George Osborne
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" It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. "
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" I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system. "
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" What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country. "
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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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" To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business. "
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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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" Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions. "
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" I am a social liberal. "
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" I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. "
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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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" I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge. "
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" Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution. "
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