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British Politician Inspirational Quotes (1209)

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Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
Michael Gove
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
George Osborne
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It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
William Hague
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And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
William Hague
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I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.
Michael Gove
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London is the clearing-house of the world.
Joseph Chamberlain
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We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
Michael Gove
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War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.
Douglas Hurd
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I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
Charles Kennedy
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There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.
Douglas Alexander
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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
Paddy Ashdown
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Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.
Douglas Hurd
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I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove
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The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.
Peter Lilley
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A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought
Roy Hattersley
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I think it's very realistic to think we could provide additional protection for renters because for many people - renting is now the only option. It is also entirely necessary if we are to protect Londoners from rapidly rising rents.
David Lammy
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson
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Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?
Ellen Wilkinson
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My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.
John Prescott
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One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
Roy Hattersley
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You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.
George Osborne
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There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
Roy Jenkins
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I was a teenage godmother.
Theresa May
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