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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Douglas Alexander

Friends And Family

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History

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "

" 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. "

" The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. "

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

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

Douglas Alexander

Worship

Talking

" A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in. "

" 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. "

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

" Solidarity is the basis of my politics. "

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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

Win

Values

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory. "