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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

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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

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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

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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

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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

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I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him. ↗

— John Milius

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