Iain Duncan Smith Quotes

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Iain Duncan Smith

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 9, 1954

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

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You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

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

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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

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People work hard.

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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

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

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We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

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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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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

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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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