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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. "
Gordon Brown
Cox
Know
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" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
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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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" I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. "
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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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" Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids. "
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Back
Great
" Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services. "
Gordon Brown
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Values
Service
" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "
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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. "
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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. "
Gordon Brown
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Food
Relationship
" You have to live in the future, not the past. "
Gordon Brown
Past
Live
Future
" 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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City
Culture
" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
Gordon Brown
Attention
Change
Growing
" 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. "
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Create
Responsibility
Challenge
" People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world. "
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Building
Now
People
" 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
" 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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World
Battle
Ideas
" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "
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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
" It is not a mistake to want power. "
Gordon Brown
Want
Power
Mistake
" When something really matters, you should never give up or give in. "
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You
Matters
Never
" Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. "
Gordon Brown
Tsunami
Appeal
Proud
" 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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You
Finance
Like
" 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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Important
Mistake
More
" 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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Gender
Religion
Belief
" I'm all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we've missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I've been pressing this since 1997. "
Gordon Brown
Missed
Sometimes
America
" 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
" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "
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Stability
Economic
Success
" When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. "
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Things
You
Difficult
" 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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Need
People
Education
" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
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Young
Us