David Miliband Quotes

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

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

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.