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" I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. "
Gordon Brown
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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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" I've got a job to do. "
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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. "
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" You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. "
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" 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. "
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" 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
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" Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. "
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Globalisation
Control
Train
" Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use. "
Gordon Brown
Energy
Efficiency
Higher
" Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem. "
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Us
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" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "
Gordon Brown
Stability
Economic
Success
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Create
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Challenge
" 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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Change
Problems
You
" 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
" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
Gordon Brown
Attention
Change
Growing
" I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact. "
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Change
Face
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" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "
Gordon Brown
Plan
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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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Survive
Strong
People
" When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. "
Gordon Brown
NHS
Lost
Going
" 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
" 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
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" The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate. "
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Cox
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People
" While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. "
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Law
Sorry
Chance
" Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. "
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Heritage
Write
Who
" 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. "
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Woman
She
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" There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. "
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Me
You
Say
" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
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Neighbours
Live
Learning
" 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
" 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
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