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" As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose. "

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Douglas Alexander

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" 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. "

" David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. "

" Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters. "

" The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding. "

" Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations. "

" 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. "

" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "

" The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat. "

" It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. "

" The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on. "

" Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources. "

" Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. "

" As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need. "

" David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs. "

" It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised. "

" What people want is a sense of a better future to come. "

" 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. "

" In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience. "

" If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper. "

" Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit. "

" Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew. "

" Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals. "

" Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. "

Douglas Alexander

Worship

Talking

" Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments. "

" Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see. "