Quote by James Buchan
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to cha

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. – James Buchan

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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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I didnt come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. – Tony Blair

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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. – Kenneth L. Pike

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers

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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. – Satchel Paige

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