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" 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. "

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

George Osborne

Internet

Planning

Propaganda

" 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. "

" In football, as in politics, resilience pays off. "

" I want to see families with lower energy bills. "

" The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England. "

" We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy. "

George Osborne

Connected

Better

" Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition. "

" For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain. "

" Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax. "

George Osborne

Tax

Complexity

" Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so. "

" If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work. "

" I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. "

" The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. "

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

" The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country. "

" I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U. "

" Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford. "

" You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. "

" 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. "

" A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair. "

" I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. "

" I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services. "

" 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. "