"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."

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"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."

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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."

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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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"You are the land. The land is you."

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"Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated."

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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."

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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."

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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

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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."

Wealth

"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."

Urbanization

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

Choice

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

God

"We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot."

Now

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

Progress

"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."

Doubt

"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

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

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