QUOTES by Gordon Brown
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"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."
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"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."
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"In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries."
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"When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society."
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"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."
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"I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am."
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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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"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."
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"Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use."
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"The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction."
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"In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come "together "and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history."
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"The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths."
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"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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"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."
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"I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS."
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"When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS."
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"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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"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?"
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"Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer."
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"I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there."
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"I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us."
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"Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services."
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"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."
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"Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers."
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"Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again."
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"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."
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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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"You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?"
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"A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place."
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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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"When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve."
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"When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do."
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"There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do."
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"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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"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."
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"Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet."
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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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