Quotes About Gordon Brown

#1. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#2. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#3. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#4. Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. - Author: Gordon Brown

#5. People believe in the power of education to change lives. - Author: Gordon Brown

#6. I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price. - Author: Gordon Brown

#7. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#8. As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister - Author: Boris Johnson

#9. When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do. - Author: Gordon Brown

#10. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown. - Author: David Blunkett

#11. Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. - Author: James Buchan

#12. I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there. - Author: Gordon Brown

#13. Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use. - Author: Gordon Brown

#14. In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries. - Author: Gordon Brown

#15. Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history - Author: Gordon Brown

#16. We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector. - Author: Noreena Hertz

#17. I think it's important that people know who you are and ... can ask any questions they like about you. - Author: Gordon Brown

#18. Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. - Author: Gordon Brown

#19. You have to live in the future, not the past. - Author: Gordon Brown

#20. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#21. Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise. - Author: William Hague

#22. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#23. Stability is necessary for our future economic success. - Author: Gordon Brown

#24. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#25. Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth. - Author: Gordon Brown

#26. Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential - Author: Gordon Brown

#27. I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen. - Author: Gordon Brown

#28. The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. - Author: Gordon Brown

#29. The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever. - Author: Gordon Brown

#30. Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability - Author: Gordon Brown

#31. I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. - Author: Gordon Brown

#32. We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State. - Author: Gordon Brown

#33. What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism. - Author: David Blunkett

#34. It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. - Author: Gus O'Donnell

#35. I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am. - Author: Gordon Brown

#36. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#37. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#38. When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. - Author: Gordon Brown

#39. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#40. You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future? - Author: Gordon Brown

#41. I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn. - Author: Gordon Brown

#42. Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. - Author: Lucy Powell

#43. Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care - Author: Gordon Brown

#44. The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. - Author: Nick Clegg

#45. General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? - Author: John Brown Gordon

#46. When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset. - Author: Vince Cable

#47. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#48. Mars is not an aesthetic God. - Author: John Brown Gordon

#49. I've got a job to do. - Author: Gordon Brown

#50. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt. - Author: Gordon Brown

#51. The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people. - Author: Gordon Brown

#52. We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions - Author: Gordon Brown

#53. I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate. - Author: Gordon Brown

#54. Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world. - Author: Vince Cable

#55. When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. - Author: Jimmy Reid

#56. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#57. Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals. - Author: Douglas Alexander

#58. The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. - Author: Gordon Brown

#59. In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE! - Author: Brian Blessed

#60. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#61. This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child - Author: Gordon Brown

#62. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#63. I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. - Author: Malala Yousafzai

#64. Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. - Author: Gordon Brown

#65. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#66. Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past. - Author: Gordon Brown

#67. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown. - Author: Simon Hoggart

#68. There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange - Author: Gordon Brown

#69. I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. - Author: Gordon Brown

#70. I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them - Author: Gordon Brown

#71. I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. - Author: Gordon Brown

#72. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#73. Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust. - Author: Gordon Brown

#74. They should never have put me with that woman ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour. - Author: Gordon Brown

#75. When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. - Author: Gordon Brown

#76. Brown responded that he could not conceive of recommending that Britain join the Euro to advance his own prospects at the expense of the economic interest of the country - Author: Anthony Seldon

#77. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#78. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#79. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#80. What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong, - Author: Gordon Brown

#81. When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. - Author: Gordon Brown

#82. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#83. When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair - Author: George Osborne

#84. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#85. My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this. - Author: Gordon Brown

#86. I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman. - Author: Gordon Brown

#87. I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows. - Author: Gordon Brown

#88. Meet the challenges of the time. - Author: Gordon Brown

#89. The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act. - Author: Gordon Brown

#90. I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be - Author: Gordon Brown

#91. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#92. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#93. As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse. - Author: George Galloway

#94. Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. - Author: Gordon Brown

#95. I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing. - Author: Alastair Campbell

#96. 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option. - Author: Gordon Brown

#97. There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown. - Author: Diane Abbott

#98. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#99. 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. - Author: Gordon Brown

#100. I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. - Author: Gordon Brown