Grant Shapps Quotes

Grant Shapps

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 14, 1968

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

Grant Shapps

I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.

Grant Shapps

I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.

Grant Shapps

I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don't understand me.

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I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.

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I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

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Most people don't get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.

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I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.

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Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

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My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

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Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

Grant Shapps

To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers' national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.

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The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.

Grant Shapps

IVF became the only way for us to have children after I was treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma 10 years ago with fertility-destroying chemotherapy. And while the cancer treatment was predictably punishing for me, I was struck by the anguish of the IVF process and in particularly the failed cycle.

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For anyone who has found it easy to conceive, it is perhaps hard to imagine how IVF can become all-encompassing in someone's life. The endless check-ups, scans, tests, periods of waiting and finally the day when you learn the result. It's a physically punishing process for the women and an emotionally exhausting process for both partners.

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There is a dangerous chasm between what those seeking election claim they could do in office and the stark reality that once in power the real decision-making has long since been sub-contracted elsewhere.

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Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.

Grant Shapps

Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

Grant Shapps

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.

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My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.

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