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" A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place. "
Gordon Brown
Woman
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Better
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" When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. "
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" 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. "
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" Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not. "
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" I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing. "
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" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "
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" If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference. "
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" When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. "
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" While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. "
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" Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. "
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India
" Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries. "
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" The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game. "
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" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "
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Making
" Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services. "
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Service
" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
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" I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up. "
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" Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.' "
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" Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life. "
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" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "
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" Meet the challenges of the time. "
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" When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. "
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" Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life. "
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" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "
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