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" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
Gordon Brown
Attention
Change
Growing
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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. "
Gordon Brown
Economy
Problems
World
" There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. "
Gordon Brown
Things
Point
People
" I've got a job to do. "
Gordon Brown
Got
Job
" Markets need morals. "
Gordon Brown
Morals
Need
Markets
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Truth
Look
Start
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Law
Sorry
Chance
" We must understand that the British public's relationship with Europe is - and always has been, the sporting arena aside - about the benefits we can achieve in jobs, security, and quality of life from membership and how these benefits outweigh any disadvantages. "
Gordon Brown
Life
Quality
Relationship
" It is not a mistake to want power. "
Gordon Brown
Want
Power
Mistake
" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "
Gordon Brown
Think
Young
Us
" 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
Believe
Values
Service
" Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer. "
Gordon Brown
Fight
Terrorism
Country
" 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
" Meet the challenges of the time. "
Gordon Brown
Challenges
Meet
Time
" 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
" The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. "
Gordon Brown
Summer
Extraordinary
Europe
" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "
Gordon Brown
Plan
Generation
Opportunity
" It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys. "
Gordon Brown
Learn
Future
Circle
" I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am. "
Gordon Brown
Going
Where
House
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
You
Finance
Like
" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "
Gordon Brown
World
Work
War
" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "
Gordon Brown
Somewhat
Impatient
" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "
Gordon Brown
Other
France
Countries
" Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. "
Gordon Brown
Tsunami
Appeal
Proud
" 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 don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support. "
Gordon Brown
People
Politics
Support
" 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
Must
Cannot
" When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. "
Gordon Brown
You
Society
Your
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Woman
She
Better
" 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
Responsibility
Challenge
" I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. "
Gordon Brown
Duty
I Believe
Trust