Gordon Brown Quotations | Page 2

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State.

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

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

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

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

I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.

I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.