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" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Conflict
Believe
Without
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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. "
Gordon Brown
You
Gun
Liberty
" Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet. "
Gordon Brown
Nation
World
Other
" What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas. "
Gordon Brown
World
Battle
Ideas
" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "
Gordon Brown
People
Hold
Making
" When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. "
Gordon Brown
People
Learn
You
" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
Gordon Brown
Neighbours
Live
Learning
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Building
Research
Stem
" Meet the challenges of the time. "
Gordon Brown
Challenges
Meet
Time
" Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. "
Gordon Brown
Globalisation
Control
Train
" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "
Gordon Brown
People
Questions
Think
" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
Gordon Brown
Think
Young
Us
" The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance. "
Gordon Brown
Management
Wise
Performance
" People believe in the power of education to change lives. "
Gordon Brown
Lives
Change
Power
" 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
" Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites. "
Gordon Brown
Foreign Policy
Just
Policy
" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "
Gordon Brown
Stability
Economic
Success
" We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another. "
Gordon Brown
Earth
Must
Cannot
" 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
" When something really matters, you should never give up or give in. "
Gordon Brown
You
Matters
Never
" 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
Care
World
Generation
" 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
" 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
Like
" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "
Gordon Brown
Other
France
Countries
" Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality. "
Gordon Brown
Gender
Religion
Belief
" There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. "
Gordon Brown
Things
Point
People
" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "
Gordon Brown
Plan
Generation
Opportunity
" America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. "
Gordon Brown
Economy
Problems
World
" I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower. "
Gordon Brown
Belief
Strength
People
" I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. "
Gordon Brown
Businessman
Want
Something
" 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