"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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"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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"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."

Felix Adler, German Educator

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"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."

Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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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."

John Prescott, British Politician

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

Kate Millett, American Activist

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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

William Morris, English Designer

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"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"

Robert Walpole, British Statesman

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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."

Government

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

Government

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

Now

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

Choice

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."

Money

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

Progress

"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 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

"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

"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."

Development