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" Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families. "

Iain Duncan Smith

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" I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already. "

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" The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere. "

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" Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. "

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" There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. "

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" Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have? "

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" A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. "

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" We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. "

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" In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours. "

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" In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. "

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" Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. "

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" That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent. "

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" The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. "

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" I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. "

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" Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits. "

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" I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader. "

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" We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. "

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" Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere. "

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" Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves. "

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" What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed. "

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" I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that. "

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" What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. "

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" We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. "

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" After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair. "

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" Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about. "

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