Chris Grayling Quotes

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Chris Grayling

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 1, 1962

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

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We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.

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The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

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I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

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I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

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When you talk to unemployed young people you hear one thing above all others - if you haven't got experience how can you get a job? But if you don't have a job, how can you get experience?

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Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

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I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.

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We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

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European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

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All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

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Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.

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All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

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If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

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The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.

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Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new sources of energy and from bringing down the cost of our welfare state.

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Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

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We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

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We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

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The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued to people who will come back to crime again.

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