Top 75 Quotes by Douglas Alexander

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

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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