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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. "
George Osborne
Games
End
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" Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other low-carbon technology and is a crucial part of our energy mix, along with new sources of power such as shale gas. "
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Along
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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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Words
Security
World
" 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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" 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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You
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" If the country's poorer, it's got less money. "
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Got
Money
Country
" 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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Country
End
Know
" The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats. "
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Said
Liberal
" 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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Man
Old Man
Sound
" I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. "
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Things
Say
People
" 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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More
Average
Family
" 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. "
George Osborne
Old
Internet
Years
" I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan. "
George Osborne
Traditional
Come
Urban
" 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. "
George Osborne
Believe
Life
I Believe
" I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people. "
George Osborne
Happiest
Think
Sit
" Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. "
George Osborne
Christmas
Just
Tax
" 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. "
George Osborne
Now
Democracy
Result
" Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives. "
George Osborne
Politicians
Job
Successful
" Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so. "
George Osborne
Country
Everything
Fight
" If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again. "
George Osborne
Choice
Living
Think
" I believe in public services. "
George Osborne
Public
I Believe In
I Believe
" It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. "
George Osborne
Bills
Cutting
Deficit
" I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television. "
George Osborne
Inferior
Television
Watching
" I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated. "
George Osborne
Want
Centre
Financial
" Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West. "
George Osborne
China
Want
Partner
" I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. "
George Osborne
Marriage
Commitment
Believe
" The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England. "
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Conservative
Party
Out
" The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade. "
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Free
Trade
" If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like. "
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Financial
Future
People
" 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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Balance
Budget
Poor
" I'm not going out to parties every night. "
George Osborne
Going
Every Night
Every