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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. "

George Osborne

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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. "

" We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy. "

George Osborne

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Better

" 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. "

" We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it. "

" It's perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress. "

" I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. "

" Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off. "

" Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. "

" Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West. "

" I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. "

" Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. "

" Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that. "

" It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case. "

" Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax. "

George Osborne

Tax

Complexity

" 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. "

" We are not quitters. Britain has always gone out there; we have probably been more influential than any other country in shaping our world and the way it has thought about itself, the way we interact as nations. "

" The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast. "

" I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach. "

George Osborne

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" If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone. "

" The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us. "

" 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. "

" I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state. "

" It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. "

" 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. "

" I believe in public services. "

" There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent. "