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"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
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"If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination."

"Aimless life leads to depression."

"I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me."

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"

"It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."

"The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing."

"Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."

"My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."

"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."

"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."

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