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" We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

Gordon Brown

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" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Markets need morals. "

" I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. "

" When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. "

" You can drink too much tea. "

" 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. "

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

" Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem. "

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" Stability is necessary for our future economic success. "

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

" 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. "

" I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. "

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

" 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

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