David Miliband

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference. ↗

— David Miliband

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I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. ↗

— David Miliband

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If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka. ↗

— David Miliband

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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. ↗

— David Miliband

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In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. ↗

— David Miliband

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John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative! ↗

— David Miliband

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My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly. ↗

— David Miliband

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People feel politics isn't about their lives. ↗

— David Miliband

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People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #just #lives #more #more power

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. ↗

— David Miliband

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