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" We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy. "
George Osborne
Connected
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" I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system. "
George Osborne
Be True
System
True
" 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 perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress. "
George Osborne
Political
Stress
Two
" We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about. "
George Osborne
Supportive
Government
Economic
" 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 Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us. "
George Osborne
Internet
Enemies
Life
" I believe in public services. "
George Osborne
Public
I Believe In
I Believe
" 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
" 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
" There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent. "
George Osborne
Better
People
Government
" 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. "
George Osborne
Time
Storm
Safe
" 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
" 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
" Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. "
George Osborne
People
Savings
Well
" 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
" You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane. "
George Osborne
You
Stop
Time
" 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
" 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
" Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. "
George Osborne
Balance
Budget
Poor
" I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people. "
George Osborne
Things
Say
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
" When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world. "
George Osborne
Old
Internet
Years
" 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
" I want to see families with lower energy bills. "
George Osborne
Want
See
Families
" 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 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
" I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. "
George Osborne
Marriage
Commitment
Believe
" 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
" 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
" We are not quitters. Britain has always gone out there; we have probably been more influential than any other country in shaping our world and the way it has thought about itself, the way we interact as nations. "
George Osborne
Always
World
Way