George Osborne

Politician

1971-05-23

Books by George Osborne

The ancients and moderns compared in regard to the administration of justice
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Quotes by George Osborne

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
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The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.
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Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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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.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
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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.
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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.
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They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.
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