British - Politician | May 23, 1971 -
Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.
George Osborne
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If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
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In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.
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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.
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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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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.
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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.
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I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
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Autism is a very serious condition.
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