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" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "
Gordon Brown
People
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Think
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. "
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" You can drink too much tea. "
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" Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
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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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" Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. "
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" 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? "
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" You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken. "
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" 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. "
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" To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake. "
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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. "
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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'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. "
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" Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites. "
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" People believe in the power of education to change lives. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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