Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
Gordon Brown
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
Academic
Autobiographer
Biographer
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Journalist
Politician
James Gordon Brown
J. Gordon Brown
Disappear
Environment
Himalayas
Water
Glaciers
Energy
Quarters
Three
Billion
Years
Billions
People
Entirely
Provide
More quotes by Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
Gordon Brown
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
Gordon Brown
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
Gordon Brown
I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
Gordon Brown
The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...
Gordon Brown
The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
Gordon Brown
[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Gordon Brown
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
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
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.
Gordon Brown
