British - Politician | February 20, 1951 -
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.
Gordon Brown
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Meet the challenges of the time.
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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.
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I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.
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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.
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Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.
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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.
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For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.
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