Andrew Mitchell Quotes

#1. Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

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#2. The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

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#3. You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

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#4. In India there are more poor people in three states ... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

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#5. Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

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#6. Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

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#7. They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

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#8. I have apologised to the police.

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#9. Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.

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#10. Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

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#11. There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

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#12. Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

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#13. My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

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#14. My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

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#15. It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

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#16. There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

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#17. It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.

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#18. All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

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