Gordon Brown Quotes

We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

The diversity of Europe is its strength. But for a single currency to work, over a region with enormous economic and political diversity, is not easy.

A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.