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"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
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"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."

"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

"You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself."

"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."

"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."

"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."

"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
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