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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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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

"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 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."

"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."

"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."

"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."

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

"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 got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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