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" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
Gordon Brown
Think
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Us
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" I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
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" In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together. "
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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. "
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She
Better
" 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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Society
Your
" 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. "
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Problems
World
" Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality. "
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Religion
Belief
" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "
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Generation
Opportunity
" Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites. "
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Just
Policy
" Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. "
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India
" We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another. "
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Earth
Must
Cannot
" I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. "
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Father
Matters
Father's Day
" When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. "
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You
" 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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" 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. "
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Conflict
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" Markets need morals. "
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Need
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" It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present. "
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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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Idea
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" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
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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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" There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. "
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" Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer. "
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Terrorism
Country
" 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. "
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" The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. "
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Patriotism