"Even before he came to power in 1997,……" — James Buchan
"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."
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James Buchan
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
James Buchan has 65 quotes on this site.
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit…
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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