Words matter. These are the best Ed Miliband Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You’re running to be prime minister – it’s hard to be the person who makes jokes.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
No one is going to persuade me that eight people arriving in South Shields is going to overwhelm the local system. I think that 25,000 refugees would be more in line with the U.N. That would be a substantive contribution.
There just isn’t a version of ‘socialism in one country’ around in the 21st century. I think it’s really important that we don’t fall for this nirvana of ‘Let’s just get out, and we can create a socialist Britain.’
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn’t believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
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.
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.
I felt I could still make a contribution with ideas. I didn’t know how, and it has taken me some time to work that out. There were things that mattered to me about the future of the country: inequality, what the post-financial crisis settlement would be. I still felt strongly about all that.
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it’s vital because it sets an example.
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Let’s start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
While there’s capitalism, there’ll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
This idea about cheerful thinking, a digital platform for people to present their ideas, organise events around the country – that is what I am focused on building: a digital think-tank for the modern age that can help show people things can be better; the world can be different.
Remember, I’m the guy who didn’t want the referendum – I wouldn’t have had it if I’d been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that’s a recipe for more political alienation.
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.
Do you defend free markets, or do you reform them? It’s the same issue that Labour had in the mid-Seventies, and it’s the same issue the Tories had after 1945. How do you interact with this new ideological term?
Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it is with you, everyone just ignores it.
