Let the work of change begin.
Gordon Brown
On taking over as UK Prime Minister and
succeeding Tony Blair, June 27 2007. |
I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's
aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know
its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on
people's side.
Gordon Brown
Launching campaign to lead Labour Party,
May 11, 2007. |
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
Launching campaign to lead Labour Party,
May 11, 2007. |
I accept that mistakes have been made.
Gordon Brown
On Iraq, launching his campaign to lead
Labour Party, May 11, 2007. |
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
April 2007. |
There is a lot of support for Shilpa. It is pretty clear we
are getting the message across. Britain is a nation of tolerance
and fairness.
Gordon Brown
On concerns about racist bullying of Bollywood
actress Shilpa Shetty on British reality TV show Celebrity Big
Brother, during visit to India January 2007. |
There is nothing worse than a precious baby taken from you.
You never comes to terms with it. Two weeks ago she would have
been going to school for the first time.
Gordon Brown
Speaking in September 2006 about his daughter
Jennifer Jane who died in 2002. |
The Arctic Monkeys really wake you up in the morning.
Gordon Brown
On the Sheffield band, quoted in 2006 summer
issue of New Woman magazine. |
Environmental sustainability is not an option - it is a necessity.
For economies to flourish, for global poverty to be banished,
for the well-being of the world's people to be enhanced - not
just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we have
a compelling and ever more urgent duty of stewardship to take
care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic
activity and social fabric depends. ... A new paradigm that
sees economic growth, social justice and environmental care
advancing together can become the common sense of our age.
Gordon Brown
Speech to United Nations, April 2006. |
Today we salute him as the most accomplished parliamentarian
of our generation ... when Robin resigned over Iraq no one ever
doubted that his decision was founded on principle and the manner
of his departure became the true measure of the man. For we
can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience
could in circumstances of such controversy leave government
in a way that not only manifested an absence of rancour but
won applause not just from those who agreed with him but those
who disagreed with him.
Gordon Brown
Delivering eulogy at funeral of former
British foreign secretary Robin Cook, August 2005. |
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