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"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."
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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."
"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."
"And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent."
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"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."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
"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."
"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
"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."
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