David Miliband
David Miliband
David Wright Milibandis a British Labour Party politician, charity chief executive and public policy analyst who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliamentfor South Shields from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother, Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 July 1965
David Miliband quotes about
running people determined
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.
british-politics shields committed
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
decision ends made
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
wedding aunt hands
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
sick childhood environmental
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
vat conservative cameron
John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
crush today defeat
Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.
business design environmental
Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply
opportunity phones class
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.
winning simple roots
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
spencer ted
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
economies power responsibility
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
favourite poem
My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.
nations
We are a European nation - must stay one.