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" Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. "
George Osborne
Day
Risks
Me
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" Only the U.K. can trigger Article 50. And in my judgement, we should only do that when there is a clear view about what new arrangements we are seeking with our European neighbours. "
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" I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class. "
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" Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. "
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" Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator. "
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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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" 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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" I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. "
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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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End
Walk
" The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is. "
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" 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. "
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" If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work. "
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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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You
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" People should know this of me: I will do what is required to keep our country safe and secure because, in the end, that is what people's livelihoods and jobs rely on. "
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End
Know
" I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. "
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Confidence
Economy
" If the country's poorer, it's got less money. "
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" I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services. "
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Successful
Financial
" 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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Create
Future
World
" 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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Security
World
" 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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Opportunities
Growing
" Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition. "
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Growth
Sustained
" 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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Storm
Safe
" The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade. "
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Free
Trade
" 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 want London to be the global sporting capital. "
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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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Government
Enough