Iain Duncan Smith Quotes

• I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

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• I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

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• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don’t want to tell people how to live their lives.

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• If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

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• I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

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• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

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• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds – they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

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  Tags in Completely, Broken, Dysfunctional

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

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• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’

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• Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

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  Tags in Government, Commitment

• It’s fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth – in other words ‘we can only afford to have one or two children because we don’t earn enough’. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

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  Topics in Children, Decision

  Tags in Afford, Kind

• Look, I’ve always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

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• My personal view is always I’m in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That’s after all what we were elected for.

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• My view is pensioners don’t have the one option that people of working age have. They can’t really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

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  Tags in People, Working, Longer

• No I’m not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don’t think we actually get anywhere on that.

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• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

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• People work hard.

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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

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• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

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  Tags in Create, Think

• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

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  Tags in Communities, Fact, Completely, Destroy

Iain Duncan Smith (64)

Birth:	9th April, 1954
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

About

George Iain Duncan Smith, often referred to by his initials IDS, is a British Conservative Party politician who is the current Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He was previously the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2003. He was first elected to Parliament in 1992 as the MP for Chingford, and he has represented its successor constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green since 1997.

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