#k

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

#hebrew #history #i #i do #memory

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. ↗

— David Miliband

#amp #baker #been #being #ever

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?' ↗

— David Miliband

#could #developing #going #goodness #here

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

#brought #difference #i #i can #make

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

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#biggest #china #chinese #country #first

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #christian #climate #climate change #coalition

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