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"When banks have failed and the markets have faltered we, the representatives of the people, have to be the people's last line of defence. And that is why there is no financial orthodoxy so entrenched, no conventional thinking so ingrained, no special interest so strong, that it should ever stand in the way of change that hard-working families need."

(...) "The very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe. And today's financial institutions are so interwoven that a bad bank anywhere is a threat to good banks everywhere."

"Let us be honest tonight: too many parents, after they put their children to bed, will speak of their worries about losing their jobs or the need to sell houses. Too many will share stories of friends or neighbours already packing up their homes and too many will talk of a local store or business that has already gone to the wall.

"For me, this global recession is not just measured in statistics or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet. Instead, I see one individual with their own aspirations and increasingly their own apprehensions, and then another and then another. Each with their own stars to reach for. Each part of a family, each at the heart of a community, now in need of help and hope."

He received a roar of approval when he said everyone's savings would be safer "if the whole world finally came together to outlaw shadow banking systems and offshore tax havens".

"The new frontier is that there is no frontier. The new shared truth is that global problems need global solutions."

Discurso de Gordon Brown no Congresso in "The Guardian"

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