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" Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. "
Gordon Brown
Think
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Again
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" I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. "
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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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" Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. "
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" 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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" 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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" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
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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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" 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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" Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. "
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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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" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
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" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "
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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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" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "
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" 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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" Meet the challenges of the time. "
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" People believe in the power of education to change lives. "
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" You have to live in the future, not the past. "
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" 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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" If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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