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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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"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."

"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."

"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."

"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."

"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

"In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that."

"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."
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