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" 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

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" 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. "

" Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. "

" I've got a job to do. "

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Job

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

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" Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use. "

" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "

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" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "

" I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. "

" 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. "

" I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. "

" You have to live in the future, not the past. "

" Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids. "

" Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life. "

" Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. "

" When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gordon Brown

You

Finance

" 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. "

" Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. "

" We must understand that the British public's relationship with Europe is - and always has been, the sporting arena aside - about the benefits we can achieve in jobs, security, and quality of life from membership and how these benefits outweigh any disadvantages. "

" It is not a mistake to want power. "

" Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. "

" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "

" I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation. "

" I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally. "

" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "

" When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. "

" The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it. "

" 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. "