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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend more on cows than the poor.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stability is necessary for our future economic success.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to live in the future, not the past.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.
- Economic Activity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people.
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets need morals.
- Finances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must understand that the British public's relationship with Europe is - and always has been, the sporting arena aside - about the benefits we can achieve in jobs, security, and quality of life from membership and how these benefits outweigh any disadvantages.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a mistake to want power.
- Nov 07, 2020
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a job to do.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can drink too much tea.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Investment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.
- Calculations
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
- Co-Operation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.
- Co-Operation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we've missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I've been pressing this since 1997.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meet the challenges of the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you.
- Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020