Quotes from Gordon Brown

Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.

I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.

It is not a mistake to want power.

Markets need morals.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

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

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

Stability is necessary for our future economic success.

For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.

When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.