Gordon Brown Quotes

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

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

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

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

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

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

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.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

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.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

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.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

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?

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

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

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.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

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

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

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.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.

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

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

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.