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" We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them. "

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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. "

Iain Duncan Smith

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" When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. "

" Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. "

" All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. "

" You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it. "

" A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. "

Iain Duncan Smith

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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. "

" No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics. "

" It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. "

" 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? "

" For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. "

" The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. "

" By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. "

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

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

" Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. "

" 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. "

" With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. "

" People work hard. "

" Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy. "

" My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. "

" 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. "

" No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "