#me

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 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 whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. ↗

— David Miliband

#british #contribute #economy #either #goal

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ↗

— Henry Miller

#comes #daring #life #progress #through

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level. ↗

— David Miliband

#careful #general #informed #keep #kingdom

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

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got. ↗

— David Miliband

#energy #get #got #hate #know

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#am #anchor #beliefs #believe #drag

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#central #challenged #dominated #equality #gender

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#crumbling #did #eighteen #fix #generation