Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brownis a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliamentfrom 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth20 February 1951
CityGiffnock, Scotland
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I believe there is a chance for progress if countries worried about services and market access can make some concessions and America and Europe can look again at agricultural protectionism.
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I believe the monetary authorities have sought to take action to head off the possibility of higher inflation over the course of the next two years.
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I believe that we are better equipped than we were 10 or 20 years ago to cope with the difficulties we face in the world economy, and the reason we are better equipped in Britain, in the (European) area and in America is that people did take time in the last few years to put us on a better footing.
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Carbon saving can be a way of making money and increasing returns on investment. It makes economic opportunities of a climate-friendly energy policy real and tangible.
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If we did not get the result that we wanted, we would not hesitate to use our veto.
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If things get really critical, then we'd have to go to what they call a Stage Three (emergency), which calls for rolling blackouts of mostly residential areas,
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Much is still to be done, but I think there is a will to do this in a way that would see the biggest debt settlement the world has ever seen.
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We need to make our economy more pro-competition and pro-enterprise. Wherever there are barriers to companies, we will remove them.
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There are only eight weeks to go to these vital Hong Kong discussions. I do not believe that you can get a vital agreement that works if we wait until people arrive in Hong Kong.
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Let us move the IMF forward from its old role for an old world of sheltered national economies -- of addressing balance of payments problems -- to a new role in a world of global capital flows.
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Liberalization on services, energy and utilities are part of, and remain central to, a successful single market.
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Because this is, at root, a problem of demand outstripping supply, OPEC must respond at its meeting on 19 September to rising demand by raising production.
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We have met our inflation target this year every year since 1997.
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Tony Blair must continue to implement the agenda on which we were elected. It's only six months, you know, since there was a general election.