Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. "
George Osborne
Decisions
Alone
Government
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
George Osborne
Evidence
Debt
Fear
" I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach. "
George Osborne
Challenge
Accept
Think
" It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills. "
George Osborne
Who
First
Protected
" Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. "
George Osborne
Exercise
Never
Budget
" I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television. "
George Osborne
Inferior
Television
Watching
" I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world. "
George Osborne
Rest
World
Europe
" I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone. "
George Osborne
I Can
Financial
Done
" If the country's poorer, it's got less money. "
George Osborne
Got
Money
Country
" I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U. "
George Osborne
Left
Economic
Fought
" 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. "
George Osborne
Create
Future
World
" I believe in public services. "
George Osborne
Public
I Believe In
I Believe
" The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm. "
George Osborne
Connected
Crime
Internet
" There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic. "
George Osborne
Costs
Realistic
Without
" For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain. "
George Osborne
Ideal
Winter
Place
" The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is. "
George Osborne
Wish
Your
Children
" 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
" 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. "
George Osborne
Winning
Think
People
" I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments. "
George Osborne
Left
Conservative
Clear
" 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. "
George Osborne
You
Strength
Him
" The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer. "
George Osborne
Someone
Support
Care
" Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. "
George Osborne
Conservative
Body
True
" I want to see families with lower energy bills. "
George Osborne
Want
See
Families
" I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services. "
George Osborne
Want
Successful
Financial
" Britain can only spend what it can afford. "
George Osborne
Only
Britain
Afford
" 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. "
George Osborne
Fear
Problem
Thanks
" 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. "
George Osborne
Young
Day
Guy
" I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. "
George Osborne
Trust
Politics
Done
" One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams. "
George Osborne
London
Great
Football
" Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. "
George Osborne
Christmas
Just
Tax
" What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country. "
George Osborne
Values
Think
People