"Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts." ― George Osborne Topic(s): Society More From George Osborne "In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre." "The foundations of a strong economy don’t rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government." "A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives." More In Society "There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."― David Antin "The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society."― Henry David Thoreau