Douglas Alexander
Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexanderis a British Labour politician who was the Shadow Foreign Secretary and former Member of Parliamentfor Paisley and Renfrewshire South...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 October 1967
Douglas Alexander quotes about
technology keys people
Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.
betrayal winning foundation
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
pride people want
Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.
future people
What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
offer
What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.
approach sensible
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
connected fingertips generation grown network programmes quaint suit time tv twitter via watching
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
core decides strategic
What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
enhanced greater powers scotland scots stability strength united
We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
applying communication obama recent understood
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
defines holds itself politics
A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
politician public
Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
certainly change
As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
job performed prime
Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.