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"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."
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"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."
Policy

"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."
Land

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

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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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."
Houses

"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."
Government

"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."
Houses

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

"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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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."
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Personal Development

"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
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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."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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