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" When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. "
Gordon Brown
Things
You
Difficult
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" You have to live in the future, not the past. "
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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. "
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Welcome
" 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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Mistake
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" 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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People
Education
" I've got a job to do. "
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Got
Job
" 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. "
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Union
Think
Support
" Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. "
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Control
Train
" 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. "
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Idea
Common
" 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. "
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Learn
Future
Circle
" The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate. "
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Cox
Know
People
" You can drink too much tea. "
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Much
You
Too
" If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference. "
Gordon Brown
Change
Problems
You
" 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. "
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Belief
Strength
People
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Education
Change
Excellence
" 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
" 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
" Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. "
Gordon Brown
Change
Community
Technology
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
World
Battle
Ideas
" I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. "
Gordon Brown
Future
Young
Know
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Office
Back
Great
" The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. "
Gordon Brown
Attention
Change
Growing
" 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. "
Gordon Brown
Thought
Stand
You
" The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game. "
Gordon Brown
Forward
Transparency
Rules
" I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. "
Gordon Brown
Father
Matters
Father's Day
" Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. "
Gordon Brown
Think
Nation
Again
" 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
" We spend more on cows than the poor. "
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Poor
More
Cows
" 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. "
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Roots
Search
Understanding
" 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.' "
Gordon Brown
Survive
Strong
People
" The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. "
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Summer
Extraordinary
Europe