Quotes by Iain Duncan Smith

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a childs later life can be devastating.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, Im sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and thats important, thats what leaderships all about.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

All too often, governments response to social breakdown has been a classic case of patching - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, This is the way you want to be. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.