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Gordon Brown

British Politician

Born: Feb 20, 1951

Britain Change Future People World You

Related authors: Boris Johnson David Cameron Diane Abbott Jeremy Corbyn John Bercow Neil Kinnock Nigel Farage Theresa May

Meet the challenges of the time. Gordon Brown

Time Challenges Meet

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

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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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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. Gordon Brown

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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. Gordon Brown

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

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Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites. Gordon Brown

Few Longer Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Province Just Elites

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

It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present. Gordon Brown

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

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Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. Gordon Brown

Control Out Runaway Feels Like Globalisation Train

Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries. Gordon Brown

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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. Gordon Brown

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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. Gordon Brown

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Stability is necessary for our future economic success. Gordon Brown

Success Future Our Economic Stability Necessary

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. Gordon Brown

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We spend more on cows than the poor. Gordon Brown

Spend More Cows Than Poor

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. Gordon Brown

Response Proud Appeal Britain

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food. Gordon Brown

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. Gordon Brown

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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. Gordon Brown

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