Douglas Alexander Quotes

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

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

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

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

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

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

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

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

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

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

Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

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.

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

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

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

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

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

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.

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

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

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.