“The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015. But the reality is that we are we are a million miles away from success.”

—  Gordon Brown

Speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6924570.stmat the New York UN headquarters in July 2007.
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