James Gordon Brown Quotes

• I’m a father, that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.

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• We have been prudent for a purpose: a stronger, fairer Britain.

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• Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

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

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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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• Britain should be the world’s number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

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• I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what’s new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

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

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• We spend more on cows than the poor.

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• 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.

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Birth:	20th February, 1951
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

James Gordon Brown was born in Scotland. He is a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. He earned a BA degree in 1971, an MA degree in history in 1972, and his PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He served as a rector at the University of Edinburgh from 1972-75. From 1976 to 1980 he was employed as a lecturer in politics at Glasgow College of Technology. From 1980, he worked as a journalist at Scottish Television, later serving as current affairs editor until his election to Parliament in 1983. He was a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

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