Gordon Brown Years Quotations

It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.

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.

Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history

Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed.... We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

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.

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.