George Osborne Quotes
Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.
Osborne, George. Hansard, House of Commons, 8 Sept. 2015, col. 245.
At the time immigrants had to live in America 14 years before they were eligible for citizenship. The President urged a reduction in that waiting period which is what was done. This was one of the earliest statements of America as a haven to the oppressed of the world. Note that despite occasional squabbles over land use and theft, the general assessment of the President and the public was that the Indians although not as civilized had welcomed the whites with “hospitality.” The next years would produce the conflict for land and begin the massive usurpation of Indian land that would characterize American policy and practice until the latter half of the 20th century, buy which time there was little Indian land left.
Thee months later the United Nations did nothing to prevent the slaughter of 7,000 residents by the Bosnian Serbs.
George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH is a British politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 in the Cameron government. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 2001 to 2017. He was editor of the London Evening Standard from 2017 to 2020.
