Ed Miliband Quotes

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.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

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.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

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

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

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.

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.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

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.

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 leave for our kids.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

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.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

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.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

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.

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are a European nation - must stay one.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.