"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
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"Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal."
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"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."
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"To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future."
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"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."
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"Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain."
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"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."
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"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately."
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"My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this."
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"There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society"
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"Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management"
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"No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt."
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"The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered"
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"Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability"
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"The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist..."
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"What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice."
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"Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust."
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