#rita

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fear #happy #haunting #may #puritanism

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #candidate #change #got #i

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

— David Miliband

#centrally #education #housing #over #prescribed

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

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#danger #europe #foreign #foreign policy #policy

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage. ↗

— Dan Miller

#heritage #i #i think #physical #share

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#allies #because #britain #central #great