Quotes from Gordon Brown

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.

Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.

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

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.

Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.'

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.