Chris Grayling Quotes

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Chris Grayling

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 1, 1962

To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.

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Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

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University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

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Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

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Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

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The gang culture - tragically - has for some young people become the only source of stability in their lives.

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The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

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A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.

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We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

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Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds have successful financial services sectors. There are good universities there which provide great opportunities for local technological innovation. And there are strong multinational and family businesses.

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Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start in life.

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On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

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Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

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Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

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No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

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I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

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The arrival of DNA testing has brought new dimensions to the investigation of crime. It has brought resolution to old cases where past investigators were unable to uncover the truth. It has brought justice in new cases where once the truth might never have been known.

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I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

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The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

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Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

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