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If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

~David Cameron

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We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

~David Cameron

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On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

~David Cameron

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We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

~David Cameron

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I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

~David Cameron

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We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.

~David Cameron

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But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

~David Cameron

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At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

~David Cameron

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What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

~David Cameron

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We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

~David Cameron

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: October 9th, 1966

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