Gordon Brown
Title: Prime Minister James Gordon Brown
Full Name: James Gordon Brown
Birthdate: February 20, 1951
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Occupation: Head of State
Profile: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010).
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown
Number of Quotes: 208
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.
Prime Minister's Questions. (February 11, 2008)
A few days ago they said they want to tear up the 2010 budget, impose deep cuts immediately and accused us of moral cowardice for not
doing so. Of course, typically of them, they called for big cuts before they called for small cuts before they called for modest cuts before they
called for big cuts yet again. So their biggest claim to be the party of change is that they are the Party that keeps changing their minds.
Welsh Labour Conference. (February 27, 2010)
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.
Above all, I want to thank Sarah for her unwavering support as well as her love, and for her own service to our
country. I thank my sons John and Fraser for the love and joy they bring to our lives. And as I leave the second most
important job I could ever hold, I cherish even more the first – as a husband and father. Thank you and goodbye.
Farewell statement as Prime Minister. (May 11, 2010)
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.
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.
And if you're like me and a million more people who are convinced that the case for cooperation is greater than any case put for separation then
I say to you: hold your heads high. Show dignity and pride. Be confident. Let us have confidence that our values are indeed the values of the majority
of the people of Scotland. That our principles of sharing and cooperation are far better and mean more to them than separation and splitting apart.
Better Together rally, Glasgow. (September 17, 2014)
Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.
Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.
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.
Building new Labour and winning three elections, he recognised what we must never forget that we
must always be in tune with the aspirations, at all times on the side of the British people.
On the Blair-Brown partnership, Labour Party conference. (2006)
But I do say we have got to build a consensus in this country to deal with the big
challenges we face and I want a broad sense that there is a national purpose.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
But I know that we have more to do, much more to do.
But there is clearly a European issue here that's got to be addressed.
Charles Clarke is someone who did very well as an education minister. He ran into
problems at the Home Office. I'm not going to hold against him statements that he made.
Interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy — that we should
let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, Do to others what you would have them do unto you.
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.
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath — literally and in every aspect of community life.
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants
to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice.
It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
Trade Union Congress meeting. (May 25, 2000)
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.
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
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.
Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.
For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.
Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.
Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family
finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.
Global economic competition, I have got to persuade people to upgrade their skills. Terrorism, we have got to win people's hearts and
minds. You really have to involve people and build a national consensus, if you are going to solve the challenges of the future.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and
extraordinary times callm for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
Press conference. (October 8, 2008)
Gramsci's relevance to Scotland today is in his emphasis that in a society which is both mature and complex, where the
total social and economic processes are geared to maintaining the production of goods and services (and the reproduction of
the conditions of production), then the transition to socialism must be made by the majority of the people themselves...
Introduction to The Red Paper On Scotland. (1975)
Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.
However difficult the decisions we have to make the country will never forgive us if we lurch from one opportunist tax decision to another.
I agree with Nick.
Apparent approval for Nick Clegg. First Leaders' Debate. (April 15, 2010)
I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there.
I am explaining to you that if you go around the world, you will see that every country is affected.
On the global economy. (September 11, 2008).
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.
On the Labour leadership contest.
I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.
I am ready to make the decisions for people and to work with other people to make this country the great country it is at all times.
Interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.
I believe the British people value long term stability.
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.
I believe we could step up the pace a bit more.
I don't accept that we didn't tell the electorate about the challenges we faced ahead. We had
a huge debate in the general election of 2001 about the need to finance our health service.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
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.
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.
I don't think anybody's ever said that of me and I don't want that to be assumed of anybody else, but nobody's ever said that of me.
On party funding, interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.
I give you this pledge.
I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty
of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing.
I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind — it always reflects on
the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.
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.
I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and
I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast
in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.
First statement as Prime Minister outside 10 Downing Street. (June 27, 2007)
I have learned a lot in the last 10 years. I have learned that top-down, 'pulling the lever solutions' are not always the ones that are going to work best.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
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.
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.
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.
I now intend to go further.
I now propose a radical reform of tax incentives.
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.
I recognise and understand the very genuine concerns that motorists and hauliers have.
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
Budget speech. (1998)
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
On the Damian McBride email scandal. (April 16, 2009)
I tell the country: This is not reform for reform's sake but reform to deliver
the best service possible, and Britain cannot lead the world by standing still.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
I tell you the country does face a choice.
I think at all times I have tried to be straight with the British people.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers — we should look at what young people are saying to us.
I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.
I think it's important that we move towards setting a date.
I think Mrs Thatcher,
Lady Thatcher, saw the need for change and I think whatever disagreements you
have with her about certain policies... we have got to understand that she saw the need for change. I also admire the fact that she is a conviction politician.
Downing Street Press Conference. (September 4, 2007)
I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government.
On Labour infighting, interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
I think we can make considerable progress there.
I understand the concerns about the exchange rate.
I want a Britain not just of excellence in education but a Britain of full employment and an end to the dole as we know it.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.
On Celebrity Big Brother race row. (January 16, 2007)
I want to discuss with the British people the economic challenges our country still faces.
I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place – where I will always strive to be – and that is on people's side.
Leadership campaign launch. (May 11, 2007)
I was actually smiling, talking to one of my colleagues about my new baby... It was nothing to do with politics.
On photos of him grinning after talks with Tony Blair.
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.
I will try my utmost. This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
Statement outside 10 Downing Street. (June 27, 2007)
I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
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.
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.
I'm here — but I haven't been given permission to drive.
Response to Sky News journalist in an Airbus A380 cockpit. (May 18, 2006)
I've got a job to do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1997 we inherited a Britain of economic instability, unemployment and chronic underinvestment in public services. Now from being
one of the most unstable economies, Britain is today seen around the world as the most stable economy in the industrialised world.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and — indeed often — volatility and instability,
national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure
the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.
Speech to British Chamber of Commerce. (April 5, 2000)
In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.
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.
It is a measure of our commitment.
It is about time we had an end to the old Britain, where all that matters is the privileges you were born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
It is not a mistake to want power.
It is not by accident but by action, not by coincidence but by choice.
It is not by default but by design that unemployment among men is the lowest since 1980.
It is right that we target tax cuts on the countries priorities.
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.
It is the fighters and believers who change the world, we've changed the world before and we're going to change the world again. And you know our country
faces the biggest choice for a generation, so we need to fight, not bow out, not walk away, not give in, not give up but fight; fight to win for Britain.
It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and
to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
Speech to the GMB Union. (June 5, 2007)
It was the right decision made for the right reasons.
On the Iraq war, UK inquiry. (March 5, 2010)
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. Some see politics
simply as spectacle. I see politics as service because it is through service that you can make a difference and you can help people change their lives.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
Let me promise, as a government, as John Reid and Des Browne have said, we will take any necessary steps and find all necessary resources
to ensure whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else there is no safe haven for terrorists and no hiding place for terrorist finance.
On terrorism, Labour Party conference. (2006)
Let us be clear.
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.
Markets need morals.
Meet the challenges of the time.
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.
Interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
My father was a minister of the church. His motivation was not theological zeal but compassion. He told me 'you can leave your mark on
the world for good or ill'. And my mother taught my brothers and me that whatever talents we had, however small, we should use them.
On his personal values, Labour Party conference. (2006)
My first rule — the golden rule — ensures that over the economic cycle the Government
will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.
First Budget speech as Chancellor. (July 2, 1997)
Nigel Farage wanted
to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does
not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.
Now it is true to say in Britain that the last forty years has been characterised by stop go, boom bust, instability in economic policy.
Speech to British American Business Council. (April 28, 1998)
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which
matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: I will try my outmost
.
Statement outside 10 Downing Street. (June 27, 2007)
Openness, accountability and transparency.
Opportunity for all those who take responsibility.
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.
Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.
Our aim is to pursue a balanced approach.
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.
Our economic strength has allowed us to do what no government has ever achieved so quickly: to double investment in
health, in education, policing, and transport. Our prudence – yes, she'll always be around – was and is for a purpose.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical
endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
Economic seminar. (September 27, 1994)
People believe in the power of education to change lives.
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.
Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.
Press conference following the birth of his first daughter, Jennifer. (December 29, 2001)
Prudence once again for a purpose.
She should take no deal off the table - it's a terrible, catastrophic result to end up with a no deal...
BBC interview. (January 17, 2019)
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.
So it is not by accident but by our actions, that we now have the lowest inflation for over 30 years.
Stability is necessary for our future economic success. 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.
Speech to CBI. (May 20, 1997)
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.
Talking up no deal means renouncing the chance of a positive post-Brexit relationship with the continent and our major economic partners.
(2019)
That was a disaster. Should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that?...
Everything, she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Private remark inadvertently recorded after meeting voter Gillian Duffy. (April 28, 2010)
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.
The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate.
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.
The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015. But the reality is that we are a million miles away from success.
Speech at UN headquarters, New York. (July 2007)
The Conservative Party always opposed the fiscal stimulus; they want to cut now the support we are giving to jobs, homes and businesses.
Welsh Labour Conference. (February 27, 2010)
The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.
The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.
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.
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.
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.
The potential benefits of a successful single currency are obvious.
The priorities and tough decisions of a Labour government made them happen.
The question is, does the change justify a referendum? Let's see the outcomes out of the negotiations, if our red
lines of what we say is important to have is met, then it's unlikely there would be a need for a referendum.
On EU referendum, interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
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.
Mansion House speech. (June 10, 1999)
There are as many Scottish roads to Socialism as there are predictions of Britain's economic doom...
Introduction to The Red Paper On Scotland. (1975)
There can be no vested interests ever holding a claim on a government because we
demand, and the demand of the public, is we govern in the whole of the public interest.
Interview with BBC editors. (June 22, 2007)
There are two kinds of Chancellor. Those who fail and those who get out in time.
There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange.
There is no room for complacency.
There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.
Remark to Tony Blair (attributed). (October 2024)
There were rumours of course about all sorts of things happening during the course of that week. If
anybody had asked me about the contents of that letter, I would have said it was completely ill-advised.
On the letter from MPs urging Tony Blair to
quit. Interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said — there's a job to do.
They should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Commenting about a voter he met while campaigning for the British general election.
This is a moment not for complacency but a moment of challenge.
This new Britain we seek – with equal opportunities for every one, unfair privileges for no one.
Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
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.
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.
Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.
Pre-Budget Report. (November 9, 1999)
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.
We are committed early in the next parliament to making an economic assessment of the case for British membership.
We are playing a full role.
We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.
We cannot tolerate second-best investment in our schools. And, step by step, we will raise investment
in state school pupils now £5,500 per pupil to today's level for private school pupils — £8,000 a year.
Labour Party conference. (2006)
We don't condone this practice...
On the list of his favoured expressions.
We enter this election with a new responsibility and with great ambitions for Britain.
We have got to be vigilant.
We look carefully at the needs of manufacturers and business.
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.
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.
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.
We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...
Television interview. (December, 2008)
We should be a leader in Europe, not leaving it.
EU referendum speech. (June 13, 2016)
We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and
Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is,
and can continue to be a leader.
We spend more on cows than the poor.
We will never tax just for taxation's sake.
We will not return to the old boom and bust.
Budget speech. (March 21, 2007)
We will spend more and we will spend more fairly.
We will work every day every week to convince the British people that we deserve a new mandate for a purpose.
We've got to be vigilant.
We've made a decision to pursue a new route to macroeconomic stability.
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.
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone
knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
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.
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
When people complain that you control public expenditure it's because the country wants public expenditure controlled. If
that means sometimes people are bruised by it then I'm sorry but it's what you've got to do in the interests of the country.
Interview with BBC's Sunday AM.
When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.
When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.
When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
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.
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.
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?
You can drink too much tea.
You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?
You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is
actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.
You have to live in the future, not the past.
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.
You wouldn't expect me to be drawn on the detailed decisions.
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