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" If the country's poorer, it's got less money. "

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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. "

" The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is. "

" 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. "

" The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police. "

" 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. "

" I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. "

" 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. "

" We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up. "

" 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. "

" Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy. "

" Autism is a very serious condition. "

" I want London to be the global sporting capital. "

" Did I want Britain to remain in the E.U.? Yes. Did I fear the consequences if we quit? Yes. Did I argue passionately for that during the referendum? Absolutely I did. "

" 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 don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure. "

" I get a lot of letters from people. "

" Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. "

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

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

" One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams. "

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

" ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too. "

" The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership. "

" 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. "

" The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on. "

" In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre. "

" Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. "