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" 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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" 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

" 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

" 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. "

" Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope. "

" We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale. "

" I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Win

Values

" Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion. "

" 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. "

" The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power. "

" Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs. "

" Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make. "

" A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me. "

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

" The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values. "

" Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. "

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

Douglas Alexander

Worship

Talking

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

" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "

" 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. "

" Solidarity is the basis of my politics. "