Gordon Brown quotes - page 2

We will not return to the old boom and bust. (Gordon Brown)
The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist. View quote
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The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean. View quote
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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. View quote
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends. View quote
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Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past. View quote
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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. View quote
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[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour. View quote
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So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. View quote
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We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing. View quote
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In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. (Gordon Brown)
Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. View quote
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food. View quote
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. View quote
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We spend more on cows than the poor. View quote
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The Conservative Party always opposed the fiscal stimulus; they want to cut now the support we are giving to jobs, homes and businesses. View quote
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So I am a conviction politician like her. View quote
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And as I leave the second most important job I could ever hold, I cherish even more the first – as a husband and father. View quote
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The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015. But the reality is that we are we are a million miles away from success. View quote
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Luckily for the world economy, however, Gordon Brown and his officials are making sense. And they may have shown us the way through this crisis. View quote
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I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. (Gordon Brown)
Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. View quote
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I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support. View quote
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The Conservative Party always opposed the fiscal stimulus; they want to cut now the support we are giving to jobs, homes and businesses.A few days ago they said they want to tear up the 2010 budget, impose deep cuts immediately and accused us of moral cowardice for not doing so. Of course, typically of them, they called for big cuts before they called for small cuts before they called for modest cuts before they called for big cuts yet again.So their biggest claim to be the party of change is that they are the Party that keeps changing their minds. View quote
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[It is] not British to retreat to Europe's sidelines. View quote
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