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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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" 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. "

Gordon Brown

Family

Support

Balance

" Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. "

" 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. "

" I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. "

" I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally. "

" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "

Gordon Brown

Somewhat

Impatient

" 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. "

" Markets need morals. "

" I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular. "

" The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. "

" In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. "

" 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. "

" Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life. "

" Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers. "

" 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? "

" In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. "

" 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. "

" The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not. "

" 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. "

" Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use. "

" There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. "

Gordon Brown

You

Say

" You have to live in the future, not the past. "

" 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. "