Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use. – Gordon Brown
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. – Gordon Brown
It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe’s history and not Europe’s present. – Gordon Brown
Let us think of ourselves not as ‘yes’ and ‘no’ Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. – Gordon Brown
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. – Gordon Brown
When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve. – Gordon Brown
The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction. – Gordon Brown
The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers’ rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe… and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. – Gordon Brown
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower. – Gordon Brown
We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another. – Gordon Brown
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. – Gordon Brown
The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency – the new rules of the game. – Gordon Brown
I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain’s future – and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping ‘the least of these’ even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular. – Gordon Brown
When you’ve got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society. – Gordon Brown
Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem. – Gordon Brown
I’m a great supporter of the European Union. I didn’t support entry to the Euro, not because I’m against it in principle but because I didn’t think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn’t make me any less pro-European. – Gordon Brown
When people criticise you, you’ve got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I’ve tried to do. – Gordon Brown
We’ve managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising – there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years. – Gordon Brown
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers. – Gordon Brown
Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It’s great to see more of the kids. – Gordon Brown
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. – Gordon Brown
