To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake. Gordon Brown Read Quote
If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it’s an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference. Gordon Brown Read Quote
I’m all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we’ve missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I’ve been pressing this since 1997. Gordon Brown Read Quote
Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet. Gordon Brown Read Quote
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to. Gordon Brown Read Quote
While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. Gordon Brown Read Quote
Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. Gordon Brown Read Quote
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. Gordon Brown Read Quote
