...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early
Gordon Brown[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Gordon BrownI 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 BrownSometimes 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.
Gordon BrownThe vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
Gordon BrownI think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair
Gordon Brown