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" For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. "
Douglas Alexander
Me
Win
Values
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" Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain. "
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" Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP. "
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" The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century. "
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" Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. "
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Better
Communication
" 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. "
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See
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" The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat. "
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" 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. "
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Generation
Serious
" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "
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Growing
Age
" 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. "
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Where
Disagree
Government
" If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper. "
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Talk
Read
" The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on. "
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Politics
Style
Been
" 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. "
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Party
Born
Experience
" 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. "
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World
Grandparents
Change
" 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. "
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Challenge
Truth Is
Truth
" 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. "
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Best
Challenge
Government
" 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. "
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Challenge
Choices
Balance
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Kingdom
Think
" 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. "
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Just
" David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs. "
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Beliefs
Party
Change
" 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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" The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent. "
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Celebration
Door
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. "
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Talking
" Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. "
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Family
History
" As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future. "
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Live
" Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope. "
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Dare
Hope
" David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most. "
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Result
People