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" I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair. "
George Osborne
Strong
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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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" 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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" Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich. "
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" There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent. "
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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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" Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right. "
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" 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. "
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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 message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.' "
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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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" Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator. "
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" Autism is a very serious condition. "
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Autism
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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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Death
Someone
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" Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy. "
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China
" It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. "
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Bills
Cutting
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" In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre. "
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Government
You
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" I get a lot of letters from people. "
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Letters
People
Get
" There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. "
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Fear
Problem
Thanks
" Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. "
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Exercise
Never
Budget
" 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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Fail
Big
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" We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy. "
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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 think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them. "
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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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" 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 understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. "
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Politics
Done