British - Politician | February 20, 1951 -
Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.
Gordon Brown
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I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there.
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I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.
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Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.
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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.
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Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
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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.
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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.
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It is not a mistake to want power.
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I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.
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Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
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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.
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