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" Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer. "
Gordon Brown
Fight
Terrorism
Country
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" Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries. "
Gordon Brown
Over
Change
Rich
" We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader. "
Gordon Brown
War
Leader
Continue
" If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down. "
Gordon Brown
Truth
Look
Start
" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "
Gordon Brown
Stability
Economic
Success
" In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history. "
Gordon Brown
Two
Together
History
" To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. "
Gordon Brown
Roots
Search
Understanding
" Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life. "
Gordon Brown
Family
Support
Balance
" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
Gordon Brown
Think
Young
Us
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
You
Gun
Liberty
" I've got a job to do. "
Gordon Brown
Got
Job
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Left
Evidence
Ancestors
" Meet the challenges of the time. "
Gordon Brown
Challenges
Meet
Time
" Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion? "
Gordon Brown
Playing
Football
Same
" If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education. "
Gordon Brown
Need
People
Education
" I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS. "
Gordon Brown
Up
Scotland
NHS
" Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services. "
Gordon Brown
Believe
Values
Service
" I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European. "
Gordon Brown
Union
Think
Support
" It is not a mistake to want power. "
Gordon Brown
Want
Power
Mistake
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Change
Problems
You
" Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers. "
Gordon Brown
Mean
Action
Treasure
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
World
Work
War
" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
Gordon Brown
Attention
Change
Growing
" 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
Agriculture
Food
Relationship
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Forward
Transparency
Rules
" 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
New
Future
Saying
" There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. "
Gordon Brown
Things
Point
People
" People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world. "
Gordon Brown
Building
Now
People
" The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government. "
Gordon Brown
Party
Way
Imitation
" Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet. "
Gordon Brown
Nation
World
Other
" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
Gordon Brown
Neighbours
Live
Learning