Gordon Brown Quotes

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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

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• 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

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• When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

  Gordon Brown

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 4 March 2009, Washington, D.C.

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• I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

  Gordon Brown

  Math, Thinking, Years

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• Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

  Gordon Brown

  Doe, Want, Return

  Gordon Brown's Budget speech, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2000.

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• I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

  Gordon Brown

  Responsibility, Responsible, Persons

  "Brown 'Sorry' Over E-mail Slurs". news.bbc.co.uk. April 16, 2009.

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• Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

  Gordon Brown

  Should Have, Years, People

  "'Sometimes it takes a crisis': PM calls for biggest financial overhaul since 1944" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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• There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Golden, Economics

  Gordon Brown (2006). “Moving Britain Forward: Selected Speeches, 1997-2006”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

  Gordon Brown

  Art, Communication, Speech

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• Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

  Gordon Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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

  "Grants shake-up aimed at poor could see thousands more get university places" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• 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

  "Labour Conference: Gordon Brown's Speech in Full". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 23, 2008.

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• There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

  Gordon Brown

  Believe

  "Revealed: Brown's furious response to Blair after PM reneged on his promises to quit last year" by Melissa Kite, Sunday Telegraph, p. 1, January 9, 2005.

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• Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

  Gordon Brown

  Past, Government, Return

  Pre-Budget Report, November 9, 1999.

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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.

  Gordon Brown

  Future, People, Vision

  Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.

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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.

  Gordon Brown

  Important, Used, Should

  "Gillian Duffy, Woman Called Bigot By Gordon Brown, Receives Apology". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

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• My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

  Gordon Brown

  Sports, Teamwork, School

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• 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

  Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.

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• Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

  Gordon Brown

  Management, Modern, Economic

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• 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 Brown Paradox". Speech at an economic seminar, www.independent.co.uk. May 10, 2010.

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• In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

  Gordon Brown

  Ideas, People, Vision

  "I will listen ... and learn". www.mirror.co.uk. May 12, 2007.

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• Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Discipline, Together

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• The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

  Gordon Brown

  Vision, Citizens, Way

  Gordon Brown (2006). “Speeches, 1997-2006”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• 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

  Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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