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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. "

Douglas Alexander

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Douglas Alexander

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Solidarity is the basis of my politics. "

" 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. "

" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "

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

" 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. "

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

" What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication. "