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
certainly change
As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
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Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
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A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
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Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
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I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.
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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.
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Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
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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.
approach sensible
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
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Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.
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Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.
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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.
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What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
future people
What people want is a sense of a better future to come.