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" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "
Douglas Alexander
World
Growing
Age
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope. "
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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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Technology
People
" Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. "
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Worship
Talking
" 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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Together
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
" 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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Government
Fall
Doubt
" 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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Challenge
Government
" 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
" 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. "
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Positive
Values
Partnership
" Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals. "
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People
Understand
Most
" 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
" 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. "
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Face
Decision
History
" Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain. "
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Britain
Course
Wrong
" 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
" 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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Strength
Kingdom
Think
" 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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I Am
Conservative
Faith
" 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. "
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Battle
Same
Right
" 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
" 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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Direction
Generation
Serious
" In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience. "
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Age
Conscience
" 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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Proud
Identity
" Solidarity is the basis of my politics. "
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Basis
Politics
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Values
" The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat. "
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Clarity
Threat
Scale
" 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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Own
Support
Responsibility
" 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
" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "
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Politicians
Themselves
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