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" You can drink too much tea. "
Gordon Brown
Much
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Too
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance. "
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" We spend more on cows than the poor. "
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" It is not a mistake to want power. "
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" I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. "
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" Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. "
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" 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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" Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. "
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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. "
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Evidence
Ancestors
" Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. "
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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. "
Gordon Brown
Truth
Truth Is
Welcome
" You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future? "
Gordon Brown
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Thinking
" When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. "
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Things
You
Difficult
" For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours. "
Gordon Brown
Neighbours
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Learning
" There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. "
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Me
You
Say
" While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you. "
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" 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. "
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" People believe in the power of education to change lives. "
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