“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“What seems sometimes to be altruism, in relation to Africa, or in relation to developing countries, is more than that. It is enlightened self-interest.”
— Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest
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“You’ve got to have a healthy sense of patriotism; that’s absolutely important, but … this world has changed fundamentally, and the problems that we have cannot be solved by one nation and one nation alone.”
— Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest
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