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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.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Believe #Thinking #People
“To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Teacher #Teaching #Learning
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Graduation #Years #India
“No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Education #Money #Debt
“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.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Skills #Tough #Introducing
“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.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Country #Agriculture #Desire
“I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Prayer #Son #Two
“The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Oil #Creating #Environmental
“Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge”
-- Gordon Brown

#Character #Years #Challenges
“Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care”
-- Gordon Brown

#Government #Growth #Environmental
“This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child”
-- Gordon Brown

#Children #Fairness #Britain
“Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?”
-- Gordon Brown

#Thinking #July #Matter
“You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Running #Jobs #Organization
“The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Cycling #Our Society #Committed
“We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Lying #Moving #Europe
“Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Stress #Ideas #People
“The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Past #House #Transformation
“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.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Heavyweights #Gentleman #Fists
“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Believe
“I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Responsibility #Responsible #Persons
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Party #Taken #Yesterday
“Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Country #Strong #Essentials
“What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Running #Novices #Favour
“On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.”
-- Gordon Brown

#School #People #Childhood
“I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Country #Strong #Queens
“We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions”
-- Gordon Brown

#Powerful #Government #Eras
“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.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Responsibility #Years #Ideas
“...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.”
-- Gordon Brown

#Years #Water #People
“Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace”
-- Gordon Brown

#Country #Fighting #Pakistan
“I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair”
-- Gordon Brown

#Party #Believe #Thinking

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