Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.
I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.
I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation’s opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.
I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
If you don’t see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year’s time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in and how many want out.
If people in the end think that you can’t do something in a way which is acceptable then it won’t fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, ‘I understand why it is being done.’
It’s not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
We have no plans to increase tax at all.
The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.
Look, I am very competitive.
I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.