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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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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.
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I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
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On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: I will try my outmost. This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
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I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
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[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
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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.
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I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.
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