Gleneagles Quotes

We will be working to advance the debt relief agreement that was reached by the G-8 in Gleneagles to ensure that the debt cancellation is accompanied by real additional resources... We have been working with all the parties to move this forward. We are committed to getting it done, and we expect real progress at these meetings. - Paul Wolfowitz

This is not a time for timidity... Nor is it a time to fear reaching too high. This year, the year of the U.N. special summit as well as the year of Britain's G8 presidency in Gleneagles, is our chance to help reverse the fortunes of a continent, and it is our opportunity to help transform the lives of millions. - Gordon Brown

The truth is we're not even close to meeting the MDGs. Conditions in sub-Saharan Africa are worse now than they were a decade ago. The outcome of the summit hangs in the balance. Tony Blair and G8 leaders promised action for Africa at Gleneagles. They must now deliver. - Andrew George

The international community has now started to worry about these issues in a more robust way. Last summer the G8 meeting at Gleneagles put climate change on the agenda as a major international problem that has to be solved. This summer, the Russians are going to be leading the thinking about energy security as part of their initiative under the G8. - Kathy Sierra

The deal done in Gleneagles was a deal of the G8 countries, and there are others that need to come in, and understandably they have asked questions about it. - Hilary Benn

The Americans have gone back from what they agreed in Gleneagles. - Jennifer Morgan

Mr Blaiu's attempt at Gleneagles to start a climate change partnership with the developing world, or at least initiate a dialogue, is vital. - Michael McCarthy

Following the G8 commitment at Gleneagles to set a credible date for the end of agricultural export subsidies, it should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010. - Tony Blair

Bush agreed in Gleneagles that climate change was urgent. - Margaret Beckett

[Speaking Thursday evening from London before he returned to Gleneagles, Blair echoed the post-Sept. 11 words of Bush.] We will show through our spirit and dignity that our values will long outlast theirs... The purpose of terrorism is just that -- to terrorize people, and we will not be terrorized. This is a very sad day for the British people. But we will hold true to the British way of life. - Tony Blair