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" I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television. "
George Osborne
Inferior
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" Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy. "
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" Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. "
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" I'm not going out to parties every night. "
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" The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments. "
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" I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan. "
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" I want to see families with lower energy bills. "
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" It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills. "
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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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" In football, as in politics, resilience pays off. "
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" You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If freedom of movement is to be sustainable, then our publics must see it as freedom to move to work, rather than freedom to choose the most generous benefits. "
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" Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention. "
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" There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university. "
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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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" Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that. "
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" I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. "
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" Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world. "
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" Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution. "
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" The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is. "
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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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" Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so. "
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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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" The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England. "
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