Gordon Brown: Use

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

Gordon Brown

Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary, Philip Webster, "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite", The Times, 26 May 2000, p. 1.
Speech at a Trade Union Congress meeting, 25 May 2000.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

School , Justice , Universe , Time

“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.”

Gordon Brown

Hansard, 6 ser, vol 308 col 111 (17 March 1998)
From the 1998 Budget speech.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“Luckily for the world economy, however, Gordon Brown and his officials are making sense. And they may have shown us the way through this crisis.”

Gordon Brown

" Gordon Does Good http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13krugman.html", New York Times, 12 October 2008.
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel for Economics.
About

World , Way , Sense

“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.”

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister's Questions, 11 February 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjOmLXf-i88
Prime Minister

Money

“And if you’re like me and a million more people who are convinced that the case for cooperation is greater than any case put for separation then I say to you: hold your heads high. Show dignity and pride. Be confident. Let us have confidence that our values are indeed the values of the majority of the people of Scotland. That our principles of sharing and cooperation are far better and mean more to them than separation and splitting apart.”

Gordon Brown

Speech for a Better Together rally in Glasgow on the eve of the Scottish independence referendum, 17 September 2014
Post premiership

Self-confidence , Confidence , People