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" As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis. "
Douglas Alexander
Future
Crisis
Change
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" It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future. "
Douglas Alexander
Future
Society
Me
" If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience. "
Douglas Alexander
Experience
You
Just
" I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public. "
Douglas Alexander
Challenge
Choices
Balance
" As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. "
Douglas Alexander
World
Grandparents
Change
" What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication. "
Douglas Alexander
Offer
Going
One-Way
" Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad. "
Douglas Alexander
Best
Challenge
Government
" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "
Douglas Alexander
World
Growing
Age
" I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril. "
Douglas Alexander
Saying
Change
Deep
" Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders. "
Douglas Alexander
Free
Peace
Trade
" We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want. "
Douglas Alexander
Strength
Kingdom
Think
" Solidarity is the basis of my politics. "
Douglas Alexander
Solidarity
Basis
Politics
" My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle. "
Douglas Alexander
Vision
Together
Live
" Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments. "
Douglas Alexander
Most
Politicians
Reveal
" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "
Douglas Alexander
Politicians
Themselves
Diminish
" Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain. "
Douglas Alexander
Britain
Course
Wrong
" In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the deep and diverse partnerships that make up the United Kingdom. "
Douglas Alexander
Business
Deep
Partnerships
" I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party. "
Douglas Alexander
Challenge
Truth Is
Truth
" Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it. "
Douglas Alexander
Face
Decision
History
" A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me. "
Douglas Alexander
Defines
Holds
Difference
" The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power. "
Douglas Alexander
Arab
Example
Most
" It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences. "
Douglas Alexander
Differences
Party
Wrong
" When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats. "
Douglas Alexander
Party
Born
Experience
" Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. "
Douglas Alexander
More
Worship
Talking
" One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century. "
Douglas Alexander
Ignorance
Conservative
Success
" Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. "
Douglas Alexander
Party
Leadership
Changing
" This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned. "
Douglas Alexander
Internet
World
Generation
" Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope. "
Douglas Alexander
Say
Dare
Hope
" There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician. "
Douglas Alexander
Government
Fall
Doubt
" My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too. "
Douglas Alexander
Where
Disagree
Government
" I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight. "
Douglas Alexander
Direction
Generation
Serious