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" 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. "
Douglas Alexander
Own
Support
Responsibility
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" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience. "
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Just
" As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need. "
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Today
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" Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. "
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Changing
" 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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" 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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" I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make. "
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People
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" The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat. "
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Scale
" The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on. "
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Style
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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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" 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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Peace
Trade
" 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
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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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Saying
Change
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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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" 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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Vision
Together
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" 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
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Truth
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Borrowing
Our
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Celebration
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Differences
Party
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" The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding. "
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