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" Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders. "

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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

" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "

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

" Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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 It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.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

" 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. "

" What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver. "

" In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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