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

Douglas Alexander

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" 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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" 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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" I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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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" Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain. "

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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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