Penny Mordaunt Quotes

Penny Mordaunt

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 4, 1973

Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.

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We are not a superpower, but we have a legitimate need to protect and enhance our global interests. It is important that we maintain the independent defence capability to do so. We stand the best chance of doing so outside the E.U.

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We have always been at our best as a country when we have been a global trading nation and this role offers us the best prospects for growing our future prosperity.

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We must look at all the support a person needs and its timeliness and accessibility.

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We must judge our success on more than a person moving off a particular benefit, but rather in the distance they have travelled to meet their own ambitions.

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Recognising that someone cannot work should not be a license to stop thinking about what support they might need.

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I believe in aid. I believe in the power it has to end disease, hunger and extreme poverty, to build strong economies and to help the world's most vulnerable people live lives of dignity. Aid also allows us to influence and shape the world around us.

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The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.

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We must harness the energy of the U.K. science and technology sectors, whether in the use of cutting-edge technology to transform the way we do development, in creating drought-resistant seeds to boost food production, or in vaccines to wipe out disease.

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There are people who are alive because of British aid, people who can walk and see because of our aid, and children who can read and write because of aid.

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The work we do - the breadth, depth and quality of it, the soft power we wield and the contribution we make to the health, wealth and prosperity of the U.K. and the world - should be a source of uncontroversial national pride.

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Britain is a development superpower.

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Aid helps create self-sufficient economies and our trading partners of the future.

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Our aid spend is a reflection of us as a big-hearted, open-minded and far-sighted nation.

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Discrimination, hate crime and worse are widespread.

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Disabled people are the most entrepreneurial on the planet.

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The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.

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Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.

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Simply, diversity of workforce yields diversity of thinking.

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Gender diversity brings prosperity - to the country that sees its economy grow, to the business seeking to raise its profits, and to the woman who gets the job her efforts and talents merit.

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