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" The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on. "
George Osborne
Needs
Extreme
Threat
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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. "
George Osborne
Evidence
Debt
Fear
" Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy. "
George Osborne
Buying
Who
People
" It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case. "
George Osborne
Country
See
People
" 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. "
George Osborne
Morning
Today
Leadership
" 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. "
George Osborne
Work
Choose
Freedom
" Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions. "
George Osborne
Country
Richest
Our
" I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state. "
George Osborne
People
Service
Think
" Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. "
George Osborne
Christmas
Just
Tax
" Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. "
George Osborne
Day
Risks
Me
" I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class. "
George Osborne
Should
Know
People
" The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.' "
George Osborne
Say
Message
China
" Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition. "
George Osborne
Public
Growth
Sustained
" Only the U.K. can trigger Article 50. And in my judgement, we should only do that when there is a clear view about what new arrangements we are seeking with our European neighbours. "
George Osborne
View
New
Judgement
" 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. "
George Osborne
Man
Old Man
Sound
" 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. "
George Osborne
Power
Along
Energy
" I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone. "
George Osborne
I Can
Financial
Done
" 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. "
George Osborne
Small
Strong
Say
" 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. "
George Osborne
Fail
Big
Think
" 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. "
George Osborne
Words
Security
World
" 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. "
George Osborne
Financial
Future
People
" 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. "
George Osborne
You
Promises
Money
" 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. "
George Osborne
Child
Succeed
Important
" The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police. "
George Osborne
Going
Us
Protect
" 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. "
George Osborne
More
Average
Family
" 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
" 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
" 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
" It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. "
George Osborne
Bills
Cutting
Deficit
" If the country's poorer, it's got less money. "
George Osborne
Got
Money
Country
" I will listen to any argument put to me. "
George Osborne
Put
Will
Argument