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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
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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.
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Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
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The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
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It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
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What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
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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...
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Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.
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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.
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I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
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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.
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When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger
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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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My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
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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.
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The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.
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I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
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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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...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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