British - Politician | May 23, 1971 -
I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.
George Osborne
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Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
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I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.
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I am a social liberal.
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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'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
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