Gordon Brown Quotes - Page 3

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.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

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

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

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.

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.

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

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.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

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.

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. 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.

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.

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.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.