Quotes by Kwasi Kwarteng - Page 1

Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.
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Christian
Mecca
Years
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If you are a borrower, the more you borrow, the more it costs.
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Borrow
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Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.
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Controversial
Margaret
Thatcher
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I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.
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Running
Empires
Flawed
Model
Ordering
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One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.
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House Of Commons
Commons
Outcome
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Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.
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Desperate
Envy
Attract
Tracks
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The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.
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Fanciful
Historians
Slightly
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[Donald] Trump's views are objectionable, hateful, but they are not something I dreamt up in my own head.
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Hateful
Trump
Views
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The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people.
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Concerns
Extent
Interfering
Judges
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I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.
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Election
General Election
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Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.
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Barriers
Time Food Way
Empire
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We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.
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Buoyant
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The name Noel Skelton is largely forgotten today, but his legacy in the Conservative Party in the 20th century was enormous.
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Conservative Party
Enormous
Forgotten
Legacy
Largely
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I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.
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Alleviate
Concern
Earning
Money Always People
Burdens
Money People Always
Less Money
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If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.
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Kings
Sugar
Today
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Mansa Musa never spoke in public, and whispered everything to an interpreter; he was also never allowed to be seen eating a meal.
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Interpreter
Meal
Whispered
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It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.
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Obvious
Perpetual
Life Time Moment
Assume
Easiest
Easiest Thing
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Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.
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Cutting
Down The Road
Horse
Stable
Shutting
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The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.
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Enlightened
Narrow-minded
South Africa
Intolerant
Portrayed
Tolerant
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There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.
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British Empire
Fascination
Descriptions
Empire
Historians
Holds
Inexhaustible
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Conservatives should never be shy in promoting a strong case for individual enterprise. We should acknowledge where the system doesn't work, and seek to amend it.
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Acknowledge
Enterprise
Amend
Conservatives
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Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.
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Prime Minister
Western World
Comparable
Minister
Mrs
Thatcher
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History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the modern world.
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Engaged
Modern World
Subjects
Politics History World
Perceptions
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I think interventions tend to be wrong. That doesn't mean to say that every intervention has been a disaster, but it does mean that generally they tend to screw up.
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Disaster
Screw
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Any book on empire will omit, by necessity, vast tracts of the imperial experience, and so critics can easily find facts and details to contradict an author's bold generalisations.
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Critics
Details
Author
Bold
Contradict
Vast
Empire
Imperial
Omit
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Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater incentive for savers to save and investors to invest.
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Capitalism
Future Work Must
Invest
Incentive
Interest Rates
Properly
Rates
Upward
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The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.
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Contrast
Manufacturing
Concerns
Figure
Mark Zuckerberg
Spent
Striking
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In our media-driven age, the mere fact of having name recognition is a big advantage. When the leadership election was confined only to Conservative MPs, relatively obscure figures could emerge quickly.
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Confined
Election
Figures
Mere
Obscure
Recognition
Emerge
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Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians who firmly fixed the traditional plum pudding as a festive dish.
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Captured
Festive
Meals
Pudding
Dish
Firmly
Plum
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I don't see how a lowering of VAT helps much, in terms of stimulus. VAT is a form of sales tax. It gets paid when you spend. A stimulus should put money in your pocket before you have actually spent the money.
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Sales Tax
Stimulus
Lowering
Pocket
Sales
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In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
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Angola
Cameroon
Ghana
Lists
Nigeria
Portuguese
Ships
Slave
Document
Earliest
Mention
Staple
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It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.
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Conservatism
Conservative Party
Believes
Fundamental Questions
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In fact, the fast-changing, dynamic character of London makes perpetual Labour domination unlikely. Things are so fast-moving it would be impossible to say what the situation might look like in five years, let alone 10 or 15.
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Domination
Perpetual
Unlikely
Dynamic
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But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans 400 years in time and thousands of miles in space; every continent on Earth was directly affected by it.
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Space
Affected
British
British Empire
Difficult
Miles
Continent
Directly
Empire
Space Time Difficult
Spans
Thousands
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Aspiration, opportunity, and a stake in society are things which combine education, decent healthcare and the fruits of a capitalist system where individuals contribute to society, while also pursuing their natural inclination to improve their lot in life.
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Aspiration
Capitalist
Decent
Healthcare
Inclination
Life Education Society
Combine
Contribute
Fruits
Natural Inclination
Pursuing
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The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can't imagine changing circumstances.
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Earning
Rising
Politics Good Money
Bull
Bull Market
Falling
Prices
Recession
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From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher's style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy object of mockery. When she left office nearly 16 years later, she was a widely recognised, but clearly still highly controversial, figure.
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Conservative Party
February
Mockery
Uncompromising
Object
Recognised
Shrill
Thatcher
Widely
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The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of the great delusions of our age. Modern techonology, social media, the explosion of online retail, among many other things, have meant that governments have less and less control.
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Retail
Commanding
Delusions
Explosion
Governments
Heights
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For the British working class, the restrictions of conflict actually improved their diet. Under Lord Woolton, the minister for food, a programme of free school meals was introduced. Priority supplies of milk were provided for pregnant women and nursing mothers, while orange juice, milk and cod liver oil were given to the under-fives.
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Conflict
Juice
Liver
Meals
Milk
Nursing
Orange
Pregnant
Supplies
Improved
Introduced
Minister
Mothers
Programme
Provided
Restrictions
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