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" The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people. "

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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. "

Gordon Brown

Left

Evidence

Ancestors

" We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives. "

" 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. "

" We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing. "

" When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. "

" When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "

" 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. "

" To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake. "

Gordon Brown

Important

Mistake

" 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 spend more on cows than the poor. "

Gordon Brown

Poor

Cows

" 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. "

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

" I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. "

" You can drink too much tea. "

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

" Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. "

" I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. "

" I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up. "

" I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Meet the challenges of the time. "

" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower. "