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" 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. "
Douglas Alexander
Business
Political
Rise
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" 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. "
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" As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need. "
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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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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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Balance
" 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
Stop
" 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. "
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Fall
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" 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
Environment
" 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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Future
Best
Live
" 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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Government
Need
Genuine
" 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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Grandparents
Change
" Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments. "
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Politicians
Reveal
" 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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Isolation
Result
People
" In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience. "
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Events
Age
Conscience
" I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty. "
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Mission
Think
" David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. "
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" 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. "
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World
Generation
" 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 Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy. "
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Tax
Sitting
" 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
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Solidarity
Basis
Politics
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Identity
" What people want is a sense of a better future to come. "
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Want
Sense
" 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. "
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Conservative
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" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "
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Themselves
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" Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies. "
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Responsibility
" 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. "
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Party
Wrong
" 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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Disagree
Government
" Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit. "
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Prime Minister
Exit