Gordon Brown

“בעיות גלובליות מחייבות פתרונות כלל עולמיים, ולכן אדגיש את חשיבות מערכת היחסים הקרובה בין אירופה לבין אמריקה – שאני נחוש להמשיך ולחזק אותה עוד בעתיד.”

“יש דרך טובה יותר, בטוחה וקצרה יותר לספק את שאיפותיהם של הסקוטים, והיא לקבל את ההצעות שלנו למתן סמכויות גדולות יותר לפרלמנט הסקוטי בתוך הממלכה המאוחדת.”

“I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.”

“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.”

“I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.”

“To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.”

“For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.”

“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.”

“Meet the challenges of the time.”

“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.”

“When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.”